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Trademark Poker Craps Layout 36-Inch x 72-Inch
$19.99
This is a very good craps felt. Does everything you need it to do. Can't wait to use it to build my home craps table. The markings are clear, although the red is more burgundy than fire-truck red. This would be a great choice to help build your home casino.

Measuring, Marking, and Layout: A Builder's Guide
$24.95
The book informed me of many thing I was not aware of when survaying is being done. It covers from basic to advanced material. Great book and I would recomend it for anyone interested in learning about survaying.

Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop
$25.00
Filled with sample layouts from different media (brochures, books, etc.), this book reveals various layout grid designs (both applied and broken). It's definitely a helpful guide if your looking for ideas in layout options.

Basics Design Layout
$29.95
Why do people purchase books? Honestly, in this day and age, when so much is available digitally and so many people are saving trees and cutting down on paper purchases, and print, and even print design, people buy books because they want to take them home, read them, reference them, enjoy them. This book is A HORRIBLE READ. If it was possible to give it zero stars, I would have. The content and theory are fine, but it's execution is disastrous. It is designed in such a way that I get a headache even thinking about it. There are entire pages of copy set in white type knocking out of a black solid background, or of black type on a bright yellow background that in three sections vibrates right into your skull and out the other side due to the gloss stock (about which is noted "it's shine can interfere with the readability of text", yet the book designer used it anyway). The most important body copy is nearly 18pt bold on this vibrating yellow background, hardly a combination that helps a brain absorb and retain information. The examples of printed layout in the book are partially obscured by a transparent white box containing the layout caption information. In a book about layout design would it not be better to put aside the giddy overuse of transparent boxes and place the caption info somewhere off the image so that the reader might absorb the full effect of the sampled layout? I could nit pick more, but I won't bother. I'm struggling to get through this book for the content, but I'm tempted to return it. This book design would be better suited to a web page with hidden layers or some kind of other animation. It's impossible to know where my eye is supposed to look next. I think it's a failure of layout design, and considering it's all about layout design, that's pretty pathetic. What's the use of a wonderfully written book - and this one is alright - if you don't want to read it?Basics Design Layout (Basics Design)