How to make a new page style?

Question

I'm trying to do a page layout to the principle of the golden ratio, so I need to have total control over all things on the paper.

Purple lines in the picture there are margins, green lines are the dimensions (X1, X2, Y1, Y2 are from the edges of the paper; X'1, X'2, Y'1, Y'2 are from the top or left margin), and the red lines are to help aid visually.

How can I divide a sheet of paper into separate areas in specific locations?

For example, I want the title area to be 26.5mm from the top edge of the page, such that when text is inserted there, no matter what size and type of font used, I always have 26.5mm from the edge of ascender line text and bottom edge of the page. Next I want make second area with:

\begin{tcolorbox}
This is a \textbf{tcolorbox}.
\end{tcolorbox}

and I want 43mm from the lower edge of the frame and edge of the page.

(Note that these dimensions – 43mm, 26.5mm – are just for example.)

Dimensions can also be from the margins (like on picture X'1, Y'1...). And so on.

Please help me achieve this, as simply as possible:

How can I put an area on the page in a particular place and insert whatever I want in it, such that, even if I changed the parameters of the font or image, the area will always remain in place?

table minipage or some kind of the boxes? or something else?

Are you sure you want to use LaTeX for that? Sounds more like task for InDesign or something. — Johannes_B, Jul 17 '16 at 16:15
If it is just one page, you can do it with LaTeX. Have a look at eso-pic and textpos. — Johannes_B, Jul 17 '16 at 17:28
There's also the placeat package, but it's in version 0.1. — Bernard, Jul 17 '16 at 17:39
The memoir class provides a set of commands to do what you want. See chapter 2 Laying out the page in the manual texdoc memman. — Peter Wilson, Jul 17 '16 at 17:56
Please provide a minimum working example. Anything suggested is likely to fall afoul of your existing configuration without one. — cfr, Jul 17 '16 at 18:24
TikZ can obviously do this, with tikzpagenodes for additional convenience, but may or may not be overkill. — cfr, Jul 17 '16 at 18:27
There is also the flowfram package. See http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/183996/beginner-needing-help-to-create-simple-documentclass-for-traditional-printed-tib/184487?s=10|0.0249#184487 for example. — John Kormylo, Jul 18 '16 at 17:15
@JohnKormylo Some of the dimensions are measured from the margins, rather than from the paper edges. — cfr, Jul 18 '16 at 20:14

How to make a new page style?

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