Magazine Design: How to Create Impactful Layouts
Margins and Grids
A course by Extract Studio , Design Studio
About the video: Margins and Grids
Overview
“Once the type is defined, we can begin the juggling act of creating a flexible but considered series of grids and guides. This important step can take some time, but once you’ve conquered it, it’ll bring structure, flow, and rhythm to your work.”
In this video lesson Extract Studio addresses the topic: Margins and Grids, 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
“In this lesson, we're going to start to talk about the importance of margins and grids to give structure to your designs. This is probably the most complex part of this course in terms of calculations, and you may well need to reach for your calculator. But bear with it. As this important structure will really help you when starting to design your layouts Let's dive in and take a look. So the document is where we left it. We have our typo paragraph styles on the right-hand side here. But what I want you to now pay attention to is master pages. Here we have the pages of our document. Above t...”
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Course summary for: Magazine Design: How to Create Impactful Layouts
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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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