InDesign: Layout and Composition

Introduction

• Learning layout and composition using InDesign
• What you should know

1. Creating Visual Relationships Using a Business Card

• Arranging elements
• Experimenting with different configurations
• Exploring alignment and repetition
• Challenge: Business card

2. Exploring Layout Possibilities for a Digital Magazine Ad

• Determining a cohesive layout
• Exploring different configurations
• Using scaling and white space
• Challenge: Full-page ad

3. Structuring Space

• Microspacing and macrospacing
• Using white space in a magazine layout
• Integrating white space
• More ways to use white space
• Working with a feature article
• Organizing a page with rules
• More ways to use page rules
• Even more ways to use page rules
• Working with a floating column
• Working with tint boxes
• Challenge: Magazine spread

4. Establishing Hierarchy

• Establishing hierarchy in a table of contents
• Establishing hierarchy in an exhibition poster
• Challenge: Event poster

5. Working with Scale, Symmetry, and Asymmetry

• Scale, symmetry, and asymmetry in a book cover design
• Symmetry and asymmetry in a magazine layout
• Challenge: Book cover

6. Integrating Text and Images

• Working with text wraps: Part 1
• Working with text wraps: Part 2
• Working with text wraps: Part 3
• Working with text wraps: Part 4

Conclusion

• Goodbye