Space, our final frontier.

I swear that the writers of "Space" set me up. I began reading with our upcoming project in mind and they seemed to focus on 'white space.' I started thinking, "Oh yeah! We can make our pamphlet all white with a big horizontal slash of blue in it to get people's attention." Reading further they begin to talk about not using too much white and the abuses of space and graphics/color. So I immediately felt a reprimand and desire to rethink a design for the pamphlet. I thought of a design element formed by empty space rather than drawn- such as was suggested in the figures vs (back)grounds section. Essentially the color would form a silhouette symbol that would be centered on the cover of the pamphlet. The article proceeded to chastise the use of everything in the center. I rethought the design a decided that the silhouette could have one half on the front cover and the other on the back cover. This effect would link the image when the pamphlet is closed or opened conversely. Heaven forbid we center it. =)) The article addressed lettering that we have already studied with the obvious focus on space. It wasn't too different from the modernist article but should be given due attention with a focus on space. I was thinking of the actual information within the pages. Some really important parts could be a different typeset and size. Blank space around them would help. Additionally the message doesn't have to follow the columns as long as the established grid reading rules are kept.