Table of Contents

Introduction
1 Historical Context
Numbers and proportion/ The Golden Section/ The Van de Graaf canon/ Villard de Honnecourt’s Diagram /Fibonacci Numbers/ Preferred Numbers/ Corbusier/The Vocabulary of Layout Design
Representation and Reality/ Layout today
2 Basic Principles and ‘rules’
Relative and Absolute Measurements/ Dynamic rectangles/ Proportion/ Book Sizes/ Special numbers/
Number sequences
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
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 colour/ Passepartout
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)
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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A comprehensive visual guide to laying text, image and object out on a screen or page.

About the Author

Gavin Ambrose currently teaches at the University of Brighton, UK.

Paul Harris is a freelance writer and editor.

Reviews

The Layout Book introduces the key principles of layout design through a clear, accessible and instructional format. The fundamental principles of layout design are illustrated through a combination of contemporary and seminal references, which engages the reader and practically demonstrates the theories.
*Simon Harrison, Leeds College of Art, UK*