Editorial Design: How to Make a Magazine
What Is a Magazine and How Does It Work?
A course by Lars Harmsen , Creative Director and Editor
About the video: What Is a Magazine and How Does It Work?
Overview
“Is a magazine really just a container for information? And what is the tension between web and book? What must it be able to do to win the favor of its readers? What if a magazine is dynamite? I would like to talk about all these points in this lesson and use numerous examples to show you where the journey for your magazine could go.”
In this video lesson Lars Harmsen addresses the topic: What Is a Magazine and How Does It Work?, 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
“What is a magazine and how does it work? It starts with the question: What is a magazine? Unfortunately, the magazine landscape often looks like this like in this picture or at the station kiosk. So it's really exciting to ask yourself the question, what can a magazine be and what should it look like, so that it works and is noticeable? So let's talk about the definition of a magazine. Perhaps the first question: Is your project a magazine a magazine, a periodical, a journal? Just defining these terms for yourself, maybe helps you a bit to find the way. I appreciate the Jeremy Lesslie quote...”
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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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