Book description
This unique, go-to guide for designers fully details the essential layout and design skills needed to succeed in this competitive industry.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- ELEMENTS OF A GRID SYSTEM: An Overview
- BASIC STRUCTURES: Single-Column/Manuscript Grids
- UPPERCASE Magazine: Multicolumn Flexibility (1/2)
- UPPERCASE Magazine: Multicolumn Flexibility (2/2)
- BEHIND THE GRID: An Overview
- HOW Magazine: Designing for Designers
-
HIERARCHY/ORGANIZATION OF INFORMATION: An Overview
- Organizing the Content Scale & Impact
- Typographic Techniques Can Impact Flow
- Negative Space As a Map
- Using Relative Position to Establish Importance
- Color Can Bring Content Forward, or Push It Back
- Brandon Bird Design: Grids on Display
- Elements: A Modular System to Ease Line Extension
- The Official Manufacturing Company: Divisions in Space Form Content Areas
- PAGE STRUCTURE: An Overview
- CONTENT STRUCTURE: An Overview
- RELATIONSHIP OF DESIGN COMPONENTS: An Overview
- TYPE AS IMAGE: An Overview
- COLOR: An Overview
- BREAKING THE RULES: An Overview
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Product information
- Title: Best Practices for Graphic Designers, Grids and Page Layouts
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2012
- Publisher(s): Rockport Publishers
- ISBN: 9781610584128
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