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suggest a text layout that feels bold, formal, luxurious and different

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From: Zhang_Weiwu
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:16
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Hello. I am trying to format a report and trying to make it look:
 * formal
 * emphasized and being important
 * formal but not stiff (in fact, the report is about not to be stiff).

I am thinking I could do so by:

Using emphasized and very big font size for titles, like in the foreword
  <http://www.zhangweiwu.name/till0906/200806-foreword.pdf> (see last 2 pages)

Using large page margin at the bottom and outside, like in "summary"
  <http://www.zhangweiwu.name/till0906/200806-summary.pdf> (see last 2 pages)

Using a single red line to add variants to the text layout and use a border
  to include list of actions suggested:
  <http://www.zhangweiwu.name/till0906/200806-goals-and-tasks.pdf> (see last 2 pages)

I am pretty new to design layouts. My question:

a. how do you feel about these layouts and do they present what I want to present?

b. how can I improve these layouts to better reach the goal (feels bold, formal, luxurious and different, which is exactly the feel of the report text itself)? Especially the single red line I added wishing to add variants, looks not good to me because it looks as if the final publication was not properly cut;

Note that I can only use 2 colors (red and black) and only one typeface, for other technical reasons.

Thanks in advance!
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