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Adobe InDesign from Beginner to Advanced

Course 2: Layout and Typography: Text boxes and columns

By Leandro Rodrigues , Graphic Designer and Art Director

Graphic Designer and Art Director. São Paulo, Brazil.
Joined March 2020
Domestika Basics Course 2 of 6
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About the video: Text boxes and columns

Overview

“In this unit, you will learn how to create, edit, and the main attributes of text boxes and how to divide them into columns.”

In this video lesson Leandro Rodrigues addresses the topic: Text boxes and columns, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 2: Layout and Typography. Learn to work with the key elements of InDesign.

Partial transcription of the video

“CLASS 2 - Text boxes and columns INTRODUCTION TO INDESIGN / COURSE 2 In this unit, we will focus on the text boxes. We will see adaptations, alignment rules, how to split into columns and how to make text flow from one box to another. Come on. To get started, just access the Type tool, or the shortcut with the letter T. Let's drag, and then we have our text box, with the cursor blinking to fill. For this exercise, we’ll use the Type feature, Fill with placeholder text. There, we have our text box filled with the provisional text. As soon as we click on the box, we can see some rods so that ...”

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Course summary for: Course 2: Layout and Typography

  • Level: Beginner
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  • 10 units
  • 11 lessons (2h 9m)
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Leandro Rodrigues

Leandro Rodrigues
By Leandro Rodrigues

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Graphic Designer and Art Director

Through his extensive professional and academic experience, Leandro Rodrigues combines his passions for graphic design, publishing, and art direction to help bring life and personality to large-scale graphic content and digital projects.

With studies in graphic design and a postgrad degree in Art Direction for Communication from the Centro Universitário SENAC in São Paulo, Leandro has worked for over ten years in publishing and as a professor.

He has held art director and graphic design positions at the publishing house Maquinaria Studio and the digital marketing agency AgMN. He is a visiting Digital Design professor at SENAC São Paulo, as well as a director and art editor for Oeste magazine. Today, he is a Senior Designer in a branding consulting studio.


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Course 2: Layout and Typography

By Leandro Rodrigues
Graphic Designer and Art Director. São Paulo, Brazil.
Joined March 2020
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  • 9 students