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- When designing books and magazines, it is important to design them as spreads, where you consider facing pages. The two-page spread should be a symmetrical, mirror-image spread, where margins and spacing are equal. In some cases, however, assymetrical spreads are okay.

-Designers and software defaults tend to emphasize the grid of charts and graphs over allowing the data to dominate the page and establish its own territory.

-"Every change threatens to introduce new errors," (166). Remember that when you change anything within a design, it is important to re-edit every aspect of the overall design and the text within it because even one change can have a great effect on a document.

Question: When would it be acceptable to use an assymetrical spread in a book or magazine?