Layout: Making It Fit - Graphic Solutions for Working with Space and Content

Book Description
Finding the right balance between content and space is a challenge every graphic designer faces. The cookie-cutter templates most layout books offer don’t help, because every project has a different content-to-space ratio. Finally, here is a book that gets to the heart of challenging layout design. It offers general techniques for working with varying quantities of content and shows how designers can apply these techniques in their own work. The book focuses on the two most difficult layout issues: compacting a high volume of content onto a small area while maintaining beauty and readability; and applying a small volume of content to a large space without making it look bare. From posters to logos and magazines to book covers, two veteran design consultants examine more than 150 projects and illustrate the methodologies and solutions that made each work. This invaluable resource reveals how to make content shine in any space.


About the Author
Carolyn Knight and Jessica Glaser are partners at the UK firm Bright Pink which serves clients in industries including textile, healthcare, and nonprofit. Both authors currently lecture at The University of Wolverhampton’s School of Art and Design. They live in Stafford, United Kingdom.


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Finding the right balance between content and space is a challenge every graphic designer faces, and the cookie-cutter templates most layout books offer don't help because every project has vastly different content-to-space ratios. Finally, here is a book that gets to the heart of challenging layout design. Layout: Making It Fit offers general techniques for working with varying quantities of content and shows how designers can apply these techniques in their own work. The book focuses on the two most difficult layout issues: compacting a high volume of content into a small area while maintaining beauty and readability, and applying a small volume of content to a large space without it looking "bare." From posters and magazines to book covers and brochures, two veteran design consultants examine more than 150 projects and illustrate the methodologies and solutions that made each piece so graphically successful.


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