Newspaper Design: Bring Stories to Life
Typography
A course by Harry Hepburn , Graphic Designer
About the video: Typography
Overview
“It's time to cover the basics of typography, create our own basic typographic styles in order to use them in our publication.”
In this video lesson Harry Hepburn addresses the topic: Typography, which is part of the Domestika online course: Newspaper Design: Bring Stories to Life. Transform editorial content into a compelling visual story that both intrigues and informs readers.
Partial transcription of the video
“Typography Typography serves various purposes. It organises and clarifies information for readers through a typographical hierarchy of headlines, standfirst, body copy, pull quotes, captions and other typographical components. It provides the publication with personality. It can be subtle and understated or bold and overt. Typography can be used in various ways. There are times when the type needs to take precedence or times it takes a back seat and allows the image to shine. Typography can be functional and informative or textual and emotive. It's good to develop a feel for what's necessar...”
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Course summary for: Newspaper Design: Bring Stories to Life
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Category
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Software
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Areas
Design, Digital Design, Editorial Design, Graphic Design
Harry Hepburn
A course by Harry Hepburn
Harry Hepburn is a London-based graphic designer, who specializes in editorial design, specifically for newspapers. Growing up, he was always reading magazines and newspapers and eventually went on to study at art college. There, the then art director of The Sunday Times set a task to redesign the first three pages of the newspaper. Harry quickly became fascinated with newspaper design and was offered his first job in the industry by the same director.
Since then, Harry has worked for publications like The Telegraph, as well as The Sunday Times, helping them to tell important stories with his clean, concise, but punchy style. He’s also won several awards including the Society of Publication Designers Merit Award and the World’s Best Designed Newspaper along with his team in 2019.
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