Professional Magazine Design with Adobe InDesign

Influences

A course by Wil Huertas , Designer and Art Director

Designer and Art Director. Bogota, Colombia.
Joined October 2016
100% positive reviews (111)
3,370 students
Audio: Spanish
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About the video: Influences

Overview

“Now I will tell you about the books, movies, and even television channels from the 2000s that influenced my love of design. I will also share with you some of my first approaches to the world of magazines. ”

In this video lesson Wil Huertas addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Professional Magazine Design with Adobe InDesign. Learn to create an editorial project filled with personality, character, and unique graphics from scratch.

Partial transcription of the video

“Influences From a very young age I was always a creative person. My first influences came from books, like, for example, this book, which is a 1954 edition of "Winnie-the-Pooh", and I always really liked these contrasts, these colors of the guards. Layout, superserifed fonts, and it was a book that I ended up intervening myself when I was very little, coloring all these pictures. The layout of the book caught my attention, that mixed drawings with texts. The first approaches to graphic design They came in the 2000s with cable TV channels. I really liked to see, for example, the IDs of chann...”

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Course summary for: Professional Magazine Design with Adobe InDesign

  • Level: Beginner
  • 100% positive reviews (111)
  • 3370 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

Wil Huertas

Wil Huertas
A course by Wil Huertas

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Designer and Art Director

A graduate in design from Minuto de Dios University in Bogotá, Colombia, Wil Huertas has ten years' experience in graphic design, particularly in the magazine sector. Throughout his career, he has had the opportunity to work for acclaimed publications from media conglomerate Casa Editorial El Tiempo.

He is currently art director of BOCAS, a Sunday interview magazine in El Tiempo, one of the most influential newspapers in Colombia, for which he received the 2013 Ibero-American CLAP design award from Foroalfa for best newspaper or magazine. He also redesigned HABITAR, an architecture and design magazine with a 35-year history in the Colombian market, of which he is also art director. In 2020, his work was published in the book Portfolio Domestika, Talento joven Colombia 2020, where he received a special mention in the editorial design category.


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Professional Magazine Design with Adobe InDesign. Design course by Wil Huertas

Professional Magazine Design with Adobe InDesign

A course by Wil Huertas
Designer and Art Director. Bogota, Colombia.
Joined October 2016
  • 100% positive reviews (111)
  • 3,370 students