Magazine Design: How to Create Impactful Layouts

Overview

“Bringing together everything you’ve learned so far, let’s focus on making some impact with the opening spread. In this lesson, I’ll continue to walk you through a first-hand look at my design process. I’ll work fast initially, then refine a chosen idea to a closer representation of an opening spread of the feature article.”

In this video lesson Extract Studio addresses the topic: Composition: Opening Spread, 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 jump back into InDesign and design the opening spread of our feature article. We're going to work quickly and freely and generate lots of ideas, just like you would if you were sketching in a notepad. It may not be the same for every designer, but we do this within InDesign. As we find it's better, you've got your content at hand, you've got your style set up, and your documents ready. This means you can very quickly start to see if an idea is working or not. We're going to generate lots of ideas and we're going to see if we can create something that we can mo...”

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Course summary for: Magazine Design: How to Create Impactful Layouts

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (50)
• 3070 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (2h 19m)
• 7 downloads

• Category

  Design

• Software

  Adobe InDesign

• Areas

  Branding & Identity, Editorial Design, Graphic Design