Gutter In Magazine Layout

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.

Gutter in magazine layout. To set up the margins and columns go to layout pages margins and columns. The gutter alley and creep are all terms common in the publishing or graphic design field. A grid is used to promote consistency across the page layout and provide a framework for positioning content a well applied grid is the first thing you need to give your layout a professional look. We look for work that challenges re imagines or undermines the status quo.

For this tutorial we re going to use a 12 rows by 12 columns grid with 3 mm spacing. 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. Spreads can be very difficult to design for when producing perfect bound books or hard cover books due to the gutter. 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.

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

The image below shows the underlying structure of the spreads.