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- • 5 Must-Haves in Every Layout
- • Trim the Fat: What Your Logo Doesn't Need
- • Timeboxing: An Outline for More Efficient Design
- • Paragraph Indicators - Make A Dent in Your Universe
- • Designing for Color-Blind Viewers
- • Add Sparkle With the Symbolism Tool
- • Grab Them Right Out of the Gate
- • Depicting Time and Motion with Design
- • When Color Matters
- • Design That's Easy as A-B-C
- • Eye-Teasing Design
- • Variation on a Theme
- • Room to Breathe
- • Low-Cost Clip Art and Images
- • Typographical Terms
- • Breakthrough Brochures
- • The Risk of Over Designing
- • Successful Newsletters How-To
- • Do-It-Yourself Letterhead
- • Creative in Black and White
- • Poster Design Tips
Poster Design Tips
At its best, poster design is the territory of the truly creative, and it has been used in the past as a public display of individual talent. When you are designing in this graphic form, the poster's purpose and application should be your first considerations. The poster will normally be on display in a public area, where it will have to compete both with its surroundings and with other posters. Poster Design Checklist:
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How to Understand and Use Design and Layout
by Alan Swann and David Dabner
Find out how design works, and how you can make it work for you. Learn how to choose a shape to work on, the right proportion for your line, appropriate colors, and the right size typeface for headings and text. The new edition is basically a complete overhaul of the original. The design process is explored in incremental stages, taking one elemental at a time.
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