The Layout Book will provide an advanced overview of layout design, illustrating the many aspects of this discipline, and demonstrating how they affect not only graphic design, but realms, such as the arts/crafts/engineering, product, and architectural design. The reader will gain an understanding and appreciation of layout, through the subject being tackled from multiple aspects. The book will provide a historical overview of layout, from early scribes through to contemporary layout, and will then guide the reader to an understanding of layout from a systematic approach and exploration of key theoretical principles, through to the practical application of layout, with a presentation of an inspirational selection of layout design.