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Designing a Product Layout

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InDesign Magazine issue 134: InDesign and AcrobatThis article appeared in Issue 134 of InDesign Magazine.

Organizing chaos with white space

An image-driven layout is a staple of lifestyle magazines: a roundup of products arranged over a page or spread, with a brief description of each and information about how they can be purchased. These designs seem simple—until you try to create one yourself. Often the simplest layouts are the hardest, so in this article, I’ll provide some fundamentals to help you build this kind of image-driven layout.

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Nigel French is a graphic designer, photographer, and design teacher, based in Lewes, UK. He is author of InDesign Type (now in its 4th Edition), The Type Project Book (with Hugh D’Andrade) and the Photoshop Visual Quickstart Guide (with Mike Rankin) from Peachpit Press. He has recorded more than fifty titles in the LinkedIn Learning online training library.

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  • Anne-Marie Concepcion says:

    This is such an excellent article, thank you! I’ll be sharing it with clients who are learning design/InDesing.

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