At Portage Bay . Demonstrate place text, graphics, etc. We have spent the last several weeks discussing, designing and creating publications in PageMaker. Now, it's time for us to review some of those major concepts. Our first answer would of course be yes, but actually there are no hard and fast rules, only a few basic guiding principles to aid you in the design choices that you make.
Experimentation is critical to the design process.
Commercially available packages of clipart and fonts, scanners, and draw programs increase your ability to create. In order to enhance our critiquing capabilities we need to establish some general design guidelines for our use. There are some general principles when choosing typefaces. Serif type creates a line at the top and bottom, making it easy for the eye to track it. As a result, serif type is often preferred for body text of publications.