Layout Exercise

In this task, you are going to try out some practice layout designs.

This is for you to get used to using Google Drawings for poster designs, and for you to see the effects of changing design elements like size, layout and colour etc...

Task 1

Watch the video for a short over view of what we will be doing in this activity.

The Page Elements

These are the things that have been put on a page for you to arrange in different layouts.

There is :-

a background
some text
4 pictures
a title

Task 2

Click on the image to open a read only Google Drawing.
Make a copy for yourself to work on.
Move the elements around, resize them, change the font and colour, to create your own layout using those elements.

Design elements to think about for your layout designs.

Layout, position and white space
Size and proportion
Font
Colour
Symmetry and balance

Task 3

You are going to be giving feedback on each others layout work.

You are now going to put your design layout onto the Google Plus community for everyone to give feedback on it.

Save your Google drawing as an image file.
Post it into the Google Plus community for this project.
Give feedback on every other design layout that has been uploaded.
- One positive comment
- One constructive criticism