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

“ Composition: Opening Spread In this lesson, we'll jump back into InDesign and design the opening spread of our feature article. We'll work quickly and freely and generate lots of ideas as you would if you were sketching on a notepad. It isn't the same for every designer, but we do this within InDesign as we find it better. You have your content at hand, your style set up, and your document is ready. This means you can quickly see if an idea is working or not. We'll generate lots of ideas and see if we can create something that we can move to the next stage. Remember, at this point, there'...”

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

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (42)
• 2858 students
• 4 units
• 14 lessons (2h 19m)
• 6 downloads

• Category

  Design

• Software

  Adobe InDesign

• Areas

  Branding & Identity, Editorial Design, Graphic Design