Gutter In Magazine Layout

For this tutorial we re going to use a 12 rows by 12 columns grid with 3 mm spacing.

Gutter in magazine layout.

Gutter is an award winning high quality printed journal for fiction and poetry from writers born or living in scotland and featuring literature from around the world the editors believe there is a need for an energetic ambitious magazine dedicated to the best in new scottish writing published in an international context. If spreads are very important to the overall look and feel of your book we recommend binding types that lay flat such as saddle stitched booklets spiral bound booklets or wire o booklets. The inside margins closest to the spine of a book or the blank space between two facing pages in the center of a newsletter or magazine is known as the gutter. The gutter alley and creep are all terms common in the publishing or graphic design field.

That pushes at the boundaries of form and function. Submit to gutter magazine. To set up the margins and columns go to layout pages margins and columns. To set up the page grid go to the a master spread and choose layout create guides.

Spreads can be very difficult to design for when producing perfect bound books or hard cover books due to the gutter. Set the margins for all four edges top bottom inside and outside as well as the number of columns and the gutter the space between the columns. We look for work that challenges re imagines or undermines the status quo. Gutter magazine is dedicated to creating space for poetry and prose in scotland and beyond.

The image below shows the underlying structure of the spreads.