model in the studio

The typeface used is a sans-serif font named Nimbus Sans Novus SC.

This page spread is from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts quarterly magazine. The magazine serves to keep subscribers and donators up to date on events within and outside the museum regarding fine arts or art in general. The audience is anyone interested in art, but it is geared towards those who are a bit more mature and not towards children.

The structure on this spread is a three column grid on each page. The message is enhanced as each paragraph on the left page is about a piece of art and the flow of paragraphs is replicated on the right page, but with images corresponding to the works mentioned. The images are not parallel with the paragraph that mentions it, but the flow is pleasant to the eye and curated by the size of the works and little numbers correlate the work to the paragraph to avoid confusion. There is also a contrast in this spread by color; the left page is mostly dark due to the amount of text which is balanced out by the soft neutral tones of the right page. This allows the reader to make connections between the imagery and the text and allows for a seamless flow between these two pages. The typeface is simple and the columns are (mostly) justified with the exception of the credits, allowing the reader to not be distracted from the content by the form.

This structure and inflection will influence my works because it shows that imagery and text don't have  to be physically entwined; they can be separate but still coherent to the message. This will inspire me to not look at my creative works page by page, but to design them spread by spread while keeping a connection between the two.