Editorial Design for Magazines for beginners
Alignment and Approval
A course by Stefano Cipolla , Journalist and Art Director
About the video: Alignment and Approval
Overview
“Before sending a layout to print, everything must be perfect. So it's important to pay attention to the details: you need to take a last, careful look at the work and check the alignment of the texts and photos to the typography cage. Here I will show you how.”
In this video lesson Stefano Cipolla addresses the topic: Alignment and Approval, 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
“Alignment and approval In this lesson we will talk about alignment, approval, of final precautions to keep in mind before sending the layout to print. Before firing our job, before saying ok, since we print, we must be sure that everything is perfect, that everything is fine. How to do it? First, by checking the alignments of our layout through the cage. Reviewing the work done there are very small things to fix. Let's see which ones. The black on red signature color was not legible enough. in this way, having made it white it is perfectly legible. The summary was five lines, a little too m...”
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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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