Professional Magazine Design with Adobe InDesign

Professional Magazine Design with Adobe InDesign

“We have reached the end of this editorial journey, I hope you have enjoyed this course as much as I did doing it, I also hope that at this point you are completely in love with magazines and decided to complete your project with more articles and sections. Remember that each magazine is unique because there is no single way to make it, everything will depend on your creativity and the ingredients that, as a designer or art director, you decide to put into that recipe. I want to remind you of some key points that will help you when designing your own publication: Creating the master page and defining the paragraph and character styles will be very useful to create the basis of the design of the entire magazine, in this way, you will have saved all the characteristics that will allow you or third parties to give shape the pages of the magazine, without straying from the defined editorial line.

It is important organize the work material , check the quality of the photos and the format of the text files before starting work. Organize the themes of the magazine in the path to be able to make a preview of the structure that the final product will have. Whether for short sections or long articles, it is always important to think about which texts and images coexist in harmony within the design, but above all, let your creativity fly, since there is no right or wrong way to diagram the most risky ideas , the best designs come out The cover is the face of a magazine and in addition to being the first page it is also the most important since it will be its design and artistic direction that people will fall in love with and want to discover the rest of the content or just ignore it. There are many options to show our work as editorial designers apart from printing a magazine, we can publish it on digital kiosks in order to turn it into a digital publication or display it in your portfolio or social networks. And that would be all from me. I am eager to see your project! I also invite you to participate in the forum, all your advice and comments will enrich the content of this course. I will be happy to read you and attend to your concerns. See you soon! ”

Partial transcription of the video

“Final project We come to the end of this course. By now, you should have your magazine ready to print or to publish digitally. I want to remind you of some key steps that will be very useful to you when developing this type of project. Not all magazines are the same therefore, each one must have its own concept, purpose and personality. Before starting, you must choose a unique graphic line for that project. Create the master page, Defining the paragraph and character styles will be very useful. In this way, you will have the design basis of the entire magazine. It is important to organize ...”

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Course summary for: Professional Magazine Design with Adobe InDesign

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (94)
• 2491 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (3h 24m)
• 1 download

• Category

  Design

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign

• Areas

  Art Direction, Communication, Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Information Design