Quick Solutions To Great Layouts

Offers advice for all skill levels, discussing page design, typefaces, pictures, and evaluating the finished product

YA-With its extensive use of color and its annotated, full-page designs, this is a practical, dynamic, easy-to-use guide for anyone from fledgling desktop publisher to professional graphic artist. Davis presents excellent models for newsletters, stationery, brochures, and advertisements-his own creations as well as actual examples from around the world-with specifications so that they may be easily replicated. Each of these hands-on sections is then organized by three levels of expertise. For those with limited experience, there is a lengthy introduction that briefly reviews aesthetics and the basics of page design. Definitions of jargon, instructions on laying out a page, selecting typefaces and pictures, and evaluating the finished product are included. In addition, each example contains a client brief and the author's solution to the client's needs. If your budget permits the choice of only one book on the subject, this should be it.
Gretchen Portland, W.T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA
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