The Layout Book aims to explore layout in its broadest sense. It provides an advanced overview of layout design, illustrating the many aspects of this discipline and demonstrating how they affect not only graphic design, but also associated activities as diverse as fashion, engineering and architectural design. The book focuses on the overriding principles that guide layout and the context within which these principles were formulated, and shows how they are applied by a range of creative disciplines. Providing a historical overview of layout, from early scribes through to contemporary layout, the book then guides the reader through an understanding of layout from a systematic approach and exploration of key theoretical principles, to the practical application of layout. The Layout Book is highly visual, providing numerous examples and case studies.