Editorial Design: How to Make a Magazine
Research
A course by Lars Harmsen , Creative Director and Editor
About the video: Research
Overview
“Is the web really the only source to research content? Where do you find the right books? What does your benchmark research reveal? And how do you ask the right questions in interviews? Using numerous examples, I will show you different ways to successfully research content. ”
In this video lesson Lars Harmsen addresses the topic: Research, 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
“research Hello and welcome to the Research lesson and with a little insight into everything that goes with it for planning a magazine. You will probably do your research primarily on the internet. Here are a few websites that are very helpful e.g. studio index, a page that naturally ends in .com and not .co, as it says above, where someone has taken the trouble to gather all possible studios in the world. This is not always up to date, but it helps to do some research: Where would you like to apply? Another super interesting site is Type Foundries Archive. A listing of all possible type fou...”
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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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