Editorial Design for Magazines for beginners
Commission an Illustration
A course by Stefano Cipolla , Journalist and Art Director
About the video: Commission an Illustration
Overview
“The topics of a newspaper cannot always be displayed with photos. In these cases - which I will analyze - we resort to illustrations. Through the vision of many images you will discover that there are styles and techniques that are very different from each other.”
In this video lesson Stefano Cipolla addresses the topic: Commission an Illustration, 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
“Commission an illustration In this lesson I will tell you about illustrations. When do we resort to illustrations instead of photographs in newspapers? It is soon said. If we have to visualize a news story I will need the photograph because I will need a journalistic document tell me that fact. When instead I have to visualize a conceptual topic, difficult to view or even impossible to illustrate, here the illustration will show us that it is possible. Illustrators are professionals that I adore because thanks to digital they can be anywhere in the world and send you their work through the ...”
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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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