Editorial Design: How to Make a Magazine
Course final project
A course by Lars Harmsen , Creative Director and Editor
About the final project for: Editorial Design: How to Make a Magazine
Editorial Design: How to Make a Magazine
“We have now come to the end of this Domestika course. Thank you for taking part. I hope you gained valuable insights and want to get started right away and create a great magazine. The path is not easy and you need staying power. But if you mean it, you'll be thinking about issue 10 from day one! But the most important thing to start with is to just get started. It doesn't have to be the big thing right away - and it doesn't have to cost anything. It just has to do one thing: be real and unique. As unique as you are. Hang in there, be tough but be fair to yourself.





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“final project We are already at the end of this exciting time. Thank you for attending my courses. I was incredibly happy. Maybe you're feeling queasy now. But that's a good thing, too, because making a magazine is a Herculean task with an incredible number of topics, that you have to deal with. On the one hand Do you think about the design first? But it's also about doing the right research beforehand, that you have an idea where the whole journey should go, that in the end you also thought about it, where your magazine has to or should be laid out, where to sell it, who should get your ma...”
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Course summary for: Editorial Design: How to Make a Magazine
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Category
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Areas
Art Direction, Branding & Identity, Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Storytelling

Lars Harmsen
A course by Lars Harmsen
Lars Harmsen is a creative director from Munich, Germany. Following an internship as a print media designer, he founded the design agency MAGMA while still studying visual communication. He is also a founding partner of the creative agency Melville Brand Designs. In 1996, he created Volcano Type, an independent font foundry with more than 200 different typefaces. In 2004, he started the web blog project Slanted, dedicated to typography and design, which was complemented by a magazine under the same name the following year. This project has grown into what is today Slanted Publishers, an independent publishing and communication company. In addition to his many endeavors, Lars has been teaching design and typography at the Fachhochschule Dortmund since 2011.
His work, recognized at home and abroad, focuses on typography as well as corporate and editorial design. He is also chief curator of the artist's book series 100for10 and designer of Makers Bible. He is the author and designer of many photography, typography, and design books, including Yearbook of Type, Typodarium, Photodarium, and numerous photo books.
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