Editorial Design for Magazines for beginners
Working with the Text
A course by Stefano Cipolla , Journalist and Art Director
About the video: Working with the Text
Overview
“What are fonts? How many types of fonts are there and how are they used in newspapers? How are the letters composed? We will discover all this together in this lesson.”
In this video lesson Stefano Cipolla addresses the topic: Working with the Text, which is part of the Domestika online course: Editorial Design for Magazines for beginners. Learn the ins and outs of graphic design for magazine articles, from format analysis to text and image layout.
Partial transcription of the video
“Working with the text In this lesson I will tell you about the text, how we go about inserting text elements on a page and how these text elements are composed. We will talk about typefaces, also called fonts, which have an ancient history, as much as the press. In fact, the beginning of this adventure that we call newspapers takes place in 1450, thanks to Gutenberg who started experimenting with mobile printing. Up until then there had been some printed matter, but it had been very difficult to be able to compose texts. On the other hand, with Gutenberg's mobile printing they can be create...”
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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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