Editorial Design: How to Make a Magazine
Influences
A course by Lars Harmsen , Creative Director and Editor
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson I would like to share with you which designers and works have been formative for me and have influenced my work.”
In this video lesson Lars Harmsen addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Editorial Design: How to Make a Magazine. Discover how magazines are designed alongside the founder and editor of Slanted Publishers, and learn to tell stories through layout, color, and typography.
Partial transcription of the video
“embossing Hi. I would like to share with you everything that has inspired me. I'm an 80's kid. I was wondering: What is the first magazine I can remember reading that I consciously saw? I think it was the "Bravo". But also with distant feelings. It didn't excite me but was rather amusing. It was the classmates who got the bravo. You looked over your shoulder and actually had no relation to the magazine as a child. Except maybe this one that you once had a star in your hand at the dentist or at the doctor's. But at home we had no magazines, only newspapers. I then immediately consciously... ...”
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Course summary for: Editorial Design: How to Make a Magazine
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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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