11. The Art of Composition: The InDesign Projects
Design is the method of putting form and content together.
—American graphic designer Paul Rand
If, as Paul Rand asserts, design is the marriage of form and content, and automation, as it’s sometimes described, is the separation of form and content, together they can be considered a sort of yin and yang. They aren’t opposites; rather, they complement each other. Nowhere is this more evident than with InDesign. Page layout is the last step in many design projects—the place where images, type, shapes, and interactivity come together.
Despite this, InDesign’s automation possibilities have not been exploited as much as those in Photoshop and Illustrator have. For example, InDesign is mysteriously ...
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