Many designers overlook the importance of composition—it's one of the tasks they do every day. But there are many techniques that you can use to help improve your designs at this fundamental level. Join designer Nigel French as he takes you through a series of real-world projects (business cards, magazines, posters, ads, and book covers) to help you improve your layout and composition skills with InDesign.

Topics include:

• Creating visual relationships with alignment and repetition
• Exploring different configurations
• Using scaling and white space
• Organizing a page with rules
• Working with flexible column grids
• Establishing hierarchies
• Working with symmetry and asymmetry
• Integrating text and images in your layouts
• Full Exercise files