The Actor's Takeover

Twiggy Who?

There are surely Twiggy vibes with this magazine excerpt.  Let’s be honest, the sixties star, Twiggy had to have been the inspiration for this excerpt. The headline of the story is headlined by a huge, curvalicious letter “S”, that one may even say is as sharp is Twiggy’s famous winged eyeliner. The article itself contrasts the curvy font of the “S”. The contrast makes the page pleasing to the human eye. If it were all the same font and structure, it would be monotonous to the human eye. There is also complementary formatting done with the quote above the headline. The quote is bolded just like the headline which gives the page repetition. The repetition eases our brain that naturally looks for things to be repeated more than twice. On this page you can find the bolded concept in the headline, quote above it and the line that points out Emma Watson’s name. There you have three uses of one formatting concept. Ideally, that alone gives this piece points towards to high design ratings. Now the white space on the left hand side of the “S” gives the page “rest”. If that space was not there, with all the other components, it would make the page too busy. To help keep the page orderly there are lines sectioned off to keep the different fonts from blending together and preventing them from making it tough to read. Thankfully to contrast the pizzaz of the font, structure of the headline and picture on the following page, the page number and added detail are left in their traditional format. You can find such things at the very bottom left hand page in extremely small font. The lack of color her is one of the mosty “Twiggy” things here actually. Okay, maybe the format isn’t inspired by Twiggy but it most definitely looks sixties themed.

Standing Ovation for the Theatrics

When one thinks ‘resume’, then may bring up structure for starters and that is definitely what you get here. It may even resemble a theatrical play bill. The person’s name is at the top and in the center as if she/he were the actor playing the leading role. That is ideal to give the viewer a clue as to whose resume it is. There are various graphic design rules that are requirements that this layout has. First of all, there is definitely repetition here. All subtitles and the person's name are in the same font and then to contrast that, the bodies of each paragraph are in a different font. This gives the reader an indication that this is new information. A unique aspect of this format is the diagonal structure. Since the fonts chosen are more traditional in nature, it would only make sense as a designer to change the traditional linear concept of writing to “spice up” the design. The two columns give the design the illusion of order to contradict the unnerving diagonal word content. The lack of complete sentences and such small font size for certain chunks of information on this resume do call for some changes though. Combining the two makes the information seem like it lacks importance. Other than that, this truly does deserve a standing ovation.