
The Layout Book
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Offering a huge array of potential layout options and with over 200 color illustrations from some of the world's leading design studios, whether you are working in print or digital media this book encompasses a variety of creative approaches. The second edition has also been updated to include interviews with practicing designers, as well as new exercises to aid readers in their own explorations.
Invaluable for design students looking for a better understanding of layout design, and inspiring for working designers, The Layout Book proves itself as a graphic design must-have.
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He currently teaches the Graphic Design BA at the University of Brighton.
Content
Chapter 1 Historical Context
Numbers and proportion/ The Golden Section/ The Van de Graaf canon/ Villard de Honnecourt's Diagram /Fibonacci Numbers/ Preferred Numbers/ Le Corbusier/The Vocabulary of Layout Design
Representation and Reality/ Layout today
Chapter 2 Basic Principles and 'rules'
Relative and Absolute Measurements/ Dynamic rectangles/ Proportion/ Book Sizes/ Special numbers/
Number sequences
Chapter 3 Grids and Formations
The Grid/ Columns/ Anatomy of a grid/ Fields or Modules/ The Baseline Grid/ Gutter/ Picture boxes/
Runaround and wraps/ Complex or compound grids/ Multi-column Grids/ Orientation/ Angles/ Broadside/ Emphasis/ Hierarchy
Chapter 4 Objects on a page
How we read a page/ Balance/ Juxtaposition/ Typography/ Alignment/ Leading and fonts/ Hyphenation and justification/ Folios/ Marginalia/ Pace/Layers/ Measure/ White Space/ Dots/ Lines/ Texture and typographic color/ Passepartout
Chapter 5 Case Studies
Michael Worthington (US)/ Bruce Mau Associates (US) /Bob Aufuldish (US)/ Fabio Ongarato (Australia)/
Mucho (Spain)/ A2/SW/HK (UK)/ Hagen Verleger (Germany)
Chapter 6 Exercises
The Van De Graaf Canon/ Poster Design/ An Exercise in Editorial Complexity/Action Layout/ Flatland/ Visual Storytelling and Narrative Form/6x6/Collaborative Letterpress Project
Glossary
Index
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