Editorial Design for Magazines for beginners
Course final project
A course by Stefano Cipolla , Journalist and Art Director
About the final project for: Editorial Design for Magazines for beginners
Fundamentals of Editorial Design for Magazines
“During the lessons I taught you how to compose the pages of a magazine. Now it's your turn! Follow these basic steps to complete your project. I invite you not to just copy my example, but to experiment and invent something new. • Choose the subject of the article you want to layout. Choose a pop icon, as I did with Raffaella Carrà. • Define the tone of voice and font you want to use, then move on to creating the cage in InDesign. • Define the size of the texts , in order to understand the spaces well. Then begins the search for the images you need. Don't forget to open with a nice, impactful illustration: the first double page should have the big image with the title, so that you understand what it is all about. The second double page will have more text, smaller images, and the infographics.
Partial transcription of the video
“Final project Here we are at the conclusion of our course. First I want to thank you for making it this far with us at Domestika. I'm sure you'll love newspapers now as much as we do. Now it's your turn to get busy with the final project. You will have to layout four pages of a hypothetical newspaper, two double pages. In these pages the topic will be an iconic pop star. As you have seen, I chose Raffaella Carrà, but feel free to choose the star you prefer. You will have to layout them with all the graphic elements, typographical and photographic that we have available. So an illustration a...”
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Course summary for: Editorial Design for Magazines for beginners
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Areas
Art Direction, Design, Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Information Design
Stefano Cipolla
A course by Stefano Cipolla
Stefano Cipolla is a journalist and art director at the weekly magazine L’Espresso. Although he originally enrolled to study political science, his life-long love of images helped him discover his passion for design, which he decided to pursue at a private graphic design school instead. After several years at an agency, he shifted to freelance work, producing books and magazines, designing exhibitions, and creating ads for brands and events.
Since then, he's worked for different magazines and newspapers such as Il Manifesto, La Repubblica, and L’Espresso, where he's held the position of art director since 2018. He spent 12 years teaching history of graphic design and infographics at the IED in Rome and currently teaches editorial design at the Scuola di giornalismo in Urbino. He also gives lectures and runs workshops at Mimaster in Milan and the IED in Turin.
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