Editorial Design: How a Book is Made
More paragraph parameters
A course by Enric Jardí , Graphic Designer
About the video: More paragraph parameters
Overview
“Issues related to the organization of the lines in the column.”
In this video lesson Enric Jardí addresses the topic: More paragraph parameters, which is part of the Domestika online course: Editorial Design: How a Book is Made. Learn to format a text with clarity, hierarchy, and beauty.
Partial transcription of the video
“More Paragraph Parameters Hello again. Once the body and the line have been decided, that affect the size of the font, let's see how the lines are arranged in the paragraph. If you've ever worked with newspaper or magazine mockups, you have probably seen that the adjoining columns they are normally glued to the same grid. What they do is avoid what happens here, that are different heights and that everything is glued to a grid which is normally invisible. This is interesting especially when we work with systems in which the columns are contiguous. But in the case of a book, It's not that im...”
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Course summary for: Editorial Design: How a Book is Made
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Design, Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Typography

Enric Jardí
A course by Enric Jardí
Enric Jardí is a graphic designer who loves letters and typography. He's worked in many fields throughout his career, but has mainly focused on editorial design, art direction, book covers, corporate identity, typography, and illustration.
He has published several books, including Veintidós consejos sobre tipografía (que algunos diseñadores jamás revelarán) y veintidós cosas que nunca debes hacer con las letras (que algunos tipógrafos nunca te dirán) and Pensar con imágenes, which have both been translated into several other languages.
Enric combines his professional career with teaching at multiple academic centers such as the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the Blanquerna foundation, the Universitat Ramon Llull in Barcelona, ELISAVA, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, the University of Lapland in Finland, and IDEP Barcelona.
He served as president of the Asociación de Directores de Arte y Diseñadores Gráficos ADG-FAD for several years and has received multiple awards for his design work, including a European Design Award, a Laus, a D&AD Award, a Malofiej for infographics, and the Premio Nacional de Cultura design prize from the Autonomous Government of Catalonia.
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