Section 6Scene of the Crime!

We’ve talked about layout. We’ve talked about design, we’ve talked about composition. In short, we’ve talked about a lot of things. Analysis of theory is extremely important when learning new skill sets. Yet we haven’t spent a lot of time actually working on some of these concepts with an actual project, taking it from beginning to middle and end.

In the following pages, we will take an assignment you might find out there in the professional world and follow it through from the start all the way to completion. You’ll get to see how all the concepts that we’ve covered in the previous chapters have an effect on our project and how a better understanding of environment study and layout design can go a long way in the ...

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