What Is Layout?
Layout is…The organization and arrangement of visual and textual elements on a page.
Layout creates…Company Branding
Layout creates…Company Branding
- Advertisements
- Business Cards
- Brochures
- Corporate Reports
- Catalogues
- Packaging
- Stationery
- Business Forms
- Web Sites
- Banner Ads
- HTML Email
- Jump Pages
- Social Media Profiles
- Newsletters
- Magazines
- Books
- Newspapers
- Comic Books
- Programs
- Calendars
- CD Packaging
- DVD Packaging
- DVD Menus
- Title Sequences (Credits)
- Television Graphics
- Posters
- Signs
- Banners
- Maps
- Shopping Bags
- T-shirts
- Postcards
- Greeting Cards
- Invitations
- Currency
- Stamps
3 Features of Good Layout
A good page layout is about more than just applying the principles of graphic design or creating cutting-edge design. A good page layout:
- Works
- Organizes
- Attracts Viewers
A Good Layout Work
It does what you set out to do.
You have to know the purpose of a piece before you begin to design and lay it out. Getting the answers to a few simple questions up front will give you clear guidelines for creating a good, functional piece.
You have to know the purpose of a piece before you begin to design and lay it out. Getting the answers to a few simple questions up front will give you clear guidelines for creating a good, functional piece.
- What is the purpose of the piece (the message the reader should get)?
- Who is the audience?
- Where will it be seen (or how will it be distributed)?
A Good Layout Organizes
It grabs your reader's attention and pulls them into your piece.
A piece cannot communicate unless it gets noticed. To get noticed, it has to stand out from the crowd by being different from everything around it.
Depending on the piece, that can mean being startling, pretty, surprising, entertaining, unusual, or simple and direct. How do you know which one to choose?
The approach you use depends on the audience (who you want to see it) and environment(where it will be seen.) For example, a person wearing bold colors would not stand out at a beach party but would definitely turn heads at a black-tie formal affair.
Tips to create an attractive layout:
A piece cannot communicate unless it gets noticed. To get noticed, it has to stand out from the crowd by being different from everything around it.
Depending on the piece, that can mean being startling, pretty, surprising, entertaining, unusual, or simple and direct. How do you know which one to choose?
The approach you use depends on the audience (who you want to see it) and environment(where it will be seen.) For example, a person wearing bold colors would not stand out at a beach party but would definitely turn heads at a black-tie formal affair.
Tips to create an attractive layout:
A Good Layout Attracts
It grabs your reader's attention and pulls them into your piece.
A piece cannot communicate unless it gets noticed. To get noticed, it has to stand out from the crowd by being different from everything around it.
Depending on the piece, that can mean being startling, pretty, surprising, entertaining, unusual, or simple and direct. How do you know which one to choose?
The approach you use depends on the audience (who you want to see it) and environment(where it will be seen.) For example, a person wearing bold colors would not stand out at a beach party but would definitely turn heads at a black-tie formal affair.
Tips to create an attractive layout:
A piece cannot communicate unless it gets noticed. To get noticed, it has to stand out from the crowd by being different from everything around it.
Depending on the piece, that can mean being startling, pretty, surprising, entertaining, unusual, or simple and direct. How do you know which one to choose?
The approach you use depends on the audience (who you want to see it) and environment(where it will be seen.) For example, a person wearing bold colors would not stand out at a beach party but would definitely turn heads at a black-tie formal affair.
Tips to create an attractive layout:
Article- Fundamentals of Web Design
"The purpose of a layout is organization, more specifically layout uses organization to:"
- Convey relative importance of content
- Group similar content and separate unrelated
- Optimize visual flow
- Establish a basic visual hierarchy