Three examples of mise-en-page conventions: Example 1. Convention - table of contents. Conventionally, table of contents is a list of titles of the parts of a book (document, magazine etc.) organized in the order in which the parts appear. Also, it usually has a quite unspectacular design and often does not attract much attention. However, there are examples that illustrate a deviation from this convention (see Example 1). In anthology of comics “An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, & True Stories” edited by Ivan Brunetti the table of contents does not consist of chapter titles but it uses drawing and cartoons as metaphors for the chapters. Perhaps, the author wanted to impress a reader with this unusual design of table of contents in order to emphasize the uniqueness of every chapter. Perhaps, …show more content…
An illustrated table of contents in the anthology of contemporary art comics “An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, & True Stories” edited by Ivan Brunetti. Yale University Press, 2006. 400 p. Example 2. Convention – page proportions and text layout. Typographers developed certain rules for the layout of the text on a page. They call these rules the canons of page construction - a set of principles used to describe the ways that page proportions, margins and type areas (print spaces) of books are constructed. Unconventional example that does not follow the canons is typographic book layout of “One hundred years of solitude” written by G.G. Marquez (see Example2). In the layout of “One hundred years of solitude” inside and outside margins are quite small and text after the third line starts flowing and dropping into the pile of printed lines at the bottom of the page, creating an illusion of “liquid text”. Such utter non-conventionalism may greatly influence legibility of text. Example2. Unconventional typographic book layout of “One hundred years of solitude” written by G.G. Marquez Example3. Convention – column grid layout, size of the