This book provides the designer with grids, hanglines, margins, borders, rule measurements, and type specs-everything needed to recreate the featured layouts. It covers features over 40 projects specially tailored to cover the design of all types of printed matter from newsletters to advertisements. It also includes professional application spreads, showing dynamic layouts by top graphic designers.

When people think of hiring an interior decorator to help them design a house, an apartment, or just a room, they often have stars in their eyes. This is the opportunity to live out their dreams-maybe not Architectural Digest dreams, but at least House Beautiful, Country Living, or House &​ Garden. Then they spend a lot of time and money, admire their gorgeous home for a week or two, then realize that the one thing they should have considered was making the place ... slob proof