Editorial Content Design: A News Experience

Overview

“The dialogue between graphic designers and journalists is continuous; we discuss the best way to translate a journalistic idea into graphics, write a headline effectively, unambiguously display a message, and communicate a story through the focused and combined use of images and words that organize and present information making it understandable and engaging for the reader is. In choosing the type of representation of our data, we must always remember the message we want to communicate and which aspect we want to emphasize more. The designer at this stage has a strong responsibility since he or she makes precise editorial choices.”

In this video lesson Francesco Franchi addresses the topic: Combining languages: design, which is part of the Domestika online course: Editorial Content Design: A News Experience. Design a publishing experience that responds to and adapts to new information consumption. Combines analog and digital platforms to shape content to be read, watched, listened to, and touched..

Partial transcription of the video

“We have seen how to find data and select it. We have seen how to try to insert them into a narrative discourse. Now let's go a little deeper into the design aspect, i.e. how to find the best solution to represent this data. We are in the last phase of the workflow. The key points are to choose the most suitable graphic form, choose the right scale and how this data should be displayed, always remember the title, the legend, what are the key elements that give the reader access to our information. And here obviously typography plays a fundamental role, as well as color. We move within this s...”

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Course summary for: Editorial Content Design: A News Experience

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (23)
• 1367 students
• 4 units
• 17 lessons (3h 14m)
• 11 downloads

• Category

  Design

• Areas

  Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Information Design