Form Design

No hanging chads

The Brief

Redesign a form that you come across in your day-to-day life. Your type choices and treatment should make the form approachable.

Trim Size

US Letter/A4

Learning Points

  • Using InDesign tables

  • Thinking carefully about micro white space

  • Indicating hierarchy with the fewest number of changes

Tools

InDesign

Fonts Used

Source Sans

Inspiration & Resources

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No one becomes a graphic designer because it is their dream to design forms. But when you’re a graphic designer, you will inevitably have to design some forms. And forms ...

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