Professional Magazine Design with Adobe InDesign
The master page: file creation
A course by Wil Huertas , Designer and Art Director
About the video: The master page: file creation
Overview
“You will start by creating the master page file. I will teach you to define crucial aspects such as the size of the document, the fonts and the fixed elements that will appear in a recurring way throughout your publication. ”
In this video lesson Wil Huertas addresses the topic: The master page: file creation, 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
“The Master Page: Archive Creation Now that we organize all the files that we will use in our magazine, We will start creating our file from scratch. In this lesson I will teach you how to create that file, the dimensions we will use and we will start creating our master page with the different fonts and all the elements that will make up the different pages of the final project. I'll show you. When we open the InDesign program it tells us Create, We will give you the option to Create a new document. The value of the document will be left by default. The quality there depends on what we will...”
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Course summary for: Professional Magazine Design with Adobe InDesign
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Category
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Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign -
Areas
Art Direction, Communication, Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Information Design

Wil Huertas
A course by Wil Huertas
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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