K Sawyer Paul

The Entrepreneurs is one of Monocle’s supplemental issues that focuses on one of their beats: small businesses making it work around the world.

The Masthead appears simple enough, but there’s a double-column on the left I find impressive. It’s dense with information without seeming dull. This would be a good assignment for an InDesign student.

Monocle’s layouts are lessons in column work. There’s three here. One is finishing off a previous pages’ article. One is a contained highlight story. The third is a list. Each with their own context, each with their own width, each with their own hierarchy.

For the last page that impressed me, look at this table. InDesign lets you make a table like this fairly easily. But what’s this? Gaps between the row and column lines? Rounded edges? You do that because it’s fun, not because it’s easy.