Dorn, Raymond.

How to design and improve magazine layouts / Raymond Dorn - 2nd ed. - Chicago, Ill. : Nelson-Hall Publishers Chicago, c1986 - 218 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

1. A brief history of type. - 2. Handling copy for stories. - 3. Display typefaces and their applications. - 4. How to choose and handle type. 5. Picture editing and cropping. - 6. Magazine elements: purpose and design. - 7. Page design. - 8. The title area as a space unit. - 9. Tools needed for layouts. - 10. Layout methods. - 11. Laying out spreads. - 12. Grouping and clustering: panels and bleeds. - 13. Magazine formats. - 14. Using a second and a third color. - 15. Four-color printing. - 16. Design and function. - 17. Designing and redesigning magazines. - 18. Analyzing and redesigning magazines. - 19. Creative layout thinking: covers. - 20. Creative layout thinking: table of contents. - 21. Midwest style. - 22. The dynamics of ratios within geometric shapes. - 23. The clock-grid system. - 24. Inovation. - 25. Counterpoint. - 26. Trends and techniques. - 27. How to use that second color. - 28. The four-pages-house organs. - 29. Newsletters and bulletins. - 30. How to be an artist without being an artist. - 31. photojounalism. - 32. Tables, graphs, and charts. - 33. Those invisible construction lines. - 34. The 'Mini-magazine" format. - 35. Tabloids. - 36. Using blurbs as fillers. - 37. Using modules and grids. - 38. Four-column design. - 39. The double-18 design. - 40. The arbitrary column. - 41. Table of contents design. - 42. Sidebars. - 43. More about trends. - Glossary. - Index.

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Layout (Printing)
Magazine design.

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