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The Geometry of Design is not about the web specifically but it is a great book on proportion systems in layout and product design in general.
For what it's worth, phi is not the end all proportion. There's a lot more value in considering standard view port sizes or the proportions of the screen. The beauty of phi has been most notably exploited in the ...
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There's not much to it. Wikipedia sums it up well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
Keep in mind that in the context of graphic design, it's somewhat of an arbitrary building block. As such, it seems to be abused much more than used meaningfully.
Barring nothing else to go off of, staring with the golden ration isn't a bad thing. Just don't let ...
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Speaking from experience of reading books to my three sons, which are now five years and below.
I must add that this may apply mostly to younger kids and elder toddlers. However, I still think the below holds true for nearby ages as well, in many cases.
Likewise, I'm also considering making children's books, and these are the main things I would consider ...
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I would have to recommend Doyald Young's books. If you don't know who he is, you can check out a short documentary of him and his work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8_tOrJHIr8
http://doyaldyoung.com/books.html
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In such cases I follow the recommendations of the Chicago Manual of Style, which suggests that back matter folios should be set using lowercase roman numerals following consecutively from the front matter in the same volume.
Yours is an unusual case, but the Chicago recommendation is the one I've seen used most often. Another convention for appendices is to ...
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Having never worked with the book function in InDesign, I'm only guessing, but maybe this is your problem:
Book files are separate from document files. For example, when you choose the Save Book command, InDesign saves the changes to the book, not the documents in the book.
Maybe what needs to happen is that User B has to save the document changes, ...
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In my experience it depends upon binding.
If a piece is a self-cover, then often the cover will be considered page 1. In addition, if there is no table of contents or forward, or other information not directly related to internal contents, there would be no need to number differently.
If a piece is not a self-cover, contains a table of contents, or a ...
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The newest edition of Meggs' History of Graphic Design came out recently. It's great as far as a historical textbook goes.
This book addresses the question of how to be a designer.
All of Tufte's books are very informative but a bit dense and overly scholarly.
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I've been thinking about this question for a while, but never found a good example of what a new layout for an album could look like.
The presentation will depend on your contents, and each page you need will require a complete design. So it's difficult to recommend a layout that flexible enough.
Two things that came to my mind though, are digital ...
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Scribus is a high quality desktop publishing program, you are going in the right direction by choosing Scribus over any other open source solution or regular word processor. if you want to find resources like templates and scripts go to http://scribusstuff.org
Hope this help!
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Quick point about InDesign. Do not switch between computers and versions!!! You may learn the hard way that InDesign has great difficulty opening newer versions. It will work 5.5->6 but 6->5.5 will provide problems. Start on one and keep it on that one. With Illustrator and Photoshop there are minimal changes that occur, but I have had problems going ...
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Take the binding into consideration
Do not let important parts of an illustration disappear into the binding.
When designing the layout for facing pages, consider carefully that the space in the middle will appear partially hidden and partially curved: while reading, the book does not appear as a flat surface, unlike the page on your desk or computer.
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Children may prefer more pictures than text.(Actually many adult are so, as well)
Head First series have a heavy use of graphics to impress readers and improve efficiency and it turns out to be a success(at least for me).
Hope Head First's style might give you some inspiration.
Here is a free sample reading chapter from Head First Web Design
Good luck!
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