Magazine Design: How to Create Impactful Layouts
Our Editorial Approach
A course by Extract Studio , Design Studio
About the video: Our Editorial Approach
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll talk about our content-first approach to editorial design and give some tips on how we use order, clarity, and simplicity to build a hierarchy and narratives that connect with our client’s audience. ”
In this video lesson Extract Studio addresses the topic: Our Editorial Approach, which is part of the Domestika online course: Magazine Design: How to Create Impactful Layouts. Learn to bring order and clarity to stories worth telling by exploring the fundamentals of editorial design, from layout and typography to composition and imagery.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Our Editorial Approach In this lesson, we'll talk about our editorial approach and our belief in the power of order, clarity, and simplicity to tell the best stories. Our approach can be described as content first. That means getting to know the message that you're trying to communicate before you work out how you want to communicate that. One of the things we aim to do is make sure that everything we include in our designs has a reason for being there It may sound like a harsh rule but if you can't justify why you've included something, maybe you should question whether it deserves to be...”
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Course summary for: Magazine Design: How to Create Impactful Layouts
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Category
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Software
Adobe InDesign -
Areas
Branding & Identity, Editorial Design, Graphic Design

Extract Studio
A course by Extract Studio
Chris Vickers is co-founder and creative director of Extract Studio. He gained a BA in Graphic Design from the University for the Creative Arts in 2011 and has worked as a professional designer ever since.
With Extract Studio, Chris has collaborated with a diverse set of clients ranging from global organisations and tech-start-ups to publishers of all sizes. Extract’s work includes collaborations with a wide range of editorial clients including; Boxoffice Pro, Teeth, Another Escape, The Beautiful Truth, and a Laurence King published book, So You Want to Publish a Magazine.
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