Two Designer Timeline

When challenged to present four simultaneous timelines in one setting (regarding two designers, design history, and general history), I employed a system of grids, scale, alignment, typography, and color to accomplish a layout that distinguishes between different subjects, but does so in a unified, controlled manner.

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Reasoning
Structure
I split each spread into a 4x8 grid. Each timeline flows horizontally, taking up the 1/4ths of the vertical spacing. Subsequent information regarding each topic exists on this same horizontal plane throughout the foldable. Horizontally, the dates and captions of each event are spaced evenly across the spreads, where 8 instances occur on every page.
To differentiate spreads, I let images disregard the grid rule, so long as they appeared near the referenced text and date
Relationships
The two designers I chose, Paula Scher and Seymour Chwast, were married. I included personal events between the pair, marked by white text on colored background and a vertical line that breaks the horizontal rhythm

Font
To differentiate the two types of timeline (designer vs. history) I employed both serif and san serif fonts.
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