Over the summer the New York Times Magazine published a feature story of The legendary family of authors headed by Stephen King.  The spread was very simple but the color scheme was dark and the pictures old and eerie in a similar fashion to his writing style.  The article gave timeline info on King’s career and the progression of his family.  The pictures are intriguing because they show a very interesting family.  They are the main guiding points of the article and most of it is consumed by the text.

• Principle 2 (Continuation): The hed and dek leads the eye upward toward the visual, then to the text.
• Principle 3 (Closure): I think this spread most heavily uses the Gestalt principle of closure. Although the visual is a collage of random face parts of different people, our eyes are able to close the gaps between the pieces and understand that it’s a complete face. The text container also fills the face, even though it’s completely different from the rest of the objects.
• Principle 5 (Figure/Ground Relationship): Our eyes move through the page in a left to right motion.