Process Summary

The following steps are guidance to help create new communications.

Assets

Gather your content together before designing and creating layout. Example of contents are:

• Headline content

• Photo

• Logomark

• Body content

Establish layout format

Decide whether you are designing for vertical, square or horizontal, depending on the digital screen your will be publishing. For this exercise, we use vertical.

• Margins

• Columns

• Hang lines

7 column vertical layout with 5% margin, 2.5% gutter and 6 hang-lines

Add photo

Place photo inside margin, column and hang line.

Photo placed inside 7 column vertical layout with 5% margin, 2.5% gutter and 6 hang-lines

Add logo and copy

Content placed inside 7 column vertical layout with 5% margin, 2.5% gutter and 6 hang-lines

Add background color

Add color and body content