Fenway Center brochure spreads laid out as a nine-up grid

Summary

A contact sheet of nine printed spreads showing the whole brochure system at once, held together by a three-color rotation of deep green, terracotta and cream.

Visual description

Each spread floats on a black field with a thin page-edge highlight, all at the same scale. Top row: a green spread with two small right-aligned text blocks; a cream spread pairing a photograph of vertical timber louvres with a line-drawn site plan; a terracotta spread with a narrow left column of listed text facing three dark vertical bars. Middle row: a full terracotta divider carrying only 02 and FENWAY CENTER AERIAL; a green spread whose paragraph is set as a staircase that steps out and back to form an arrow shape; a cream spread with FENWAY CENTER in large black all-caps across the top and a dense grid of short labelled entries beneath. Bottom row: a green spread with a fine white elevation drawing and a measurements key; a cream spread with a ballpark photograph beside a full-bleed photograph of stadium seating; a spread pairing a justified column of body copy over green with a photograph of a light rail train. Running heads and folios sit tiny at the page corners throughout.

Key takeaway

Presenting the whole publication as an evenly spaced nine-up makes the color rotation the story: no two adjacent spreads share a background, so the book reads as paced rather than uniform. Full-bleed color dividers between information-heavy spreads do the same job as white space.

Reuse notes

Good model for property, architecture and development brochures where technical drawings, tables and photography have to coexist. Also a strong way to show a print system in a portfolio. The staircase paragraph and the tiny grid entries are display devices, not reading text, so keep real content in the justified columns.