When you walk into the supermarket or the convenience store, you probably take the magazine rack for granted, don’t you? Even if you don’t go in to grab a magazine for yourself, you just kind of interpret them as part of the atmosphere. But I bet you never sat down to think about the fact that all the magazine pages in every single issue is part of a layout someone designed at some point in time. Somebody was given some photos, pre-written copy and layout software and they put that page together with strategically-placed design elements and specifically-chosen color schemes, fonts and graphics. Considering all the reading material seen in stores, it’s safe to assume magazine layout design and book layout desgin are both in-demand services.

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