Editorial Design: How to Make a Magazine
Graphic Elements: Illustration, Typography, and Graphics
A course by Lars Harmsen , Creative Director and Editor
About the video: Graphic Elements: Illustration, Typography, and Graphics
Overview
“An important element and tool of the design is the typography. The typographer's job is to appropriately combine micro-typography and macro-typography. I could offer a whole course unit for illustration, but that would go beyond the scope. Nevertheless, I would like to give a place to this important element of magazine design. ”
In this video lesson Lars Harmsen addresses the topic: Graphic Elements: Illustration, Typography, and Graphics, 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
“Graphic elements illustration, typography and graphics Hi. This chapter is about typography, graphic shapes, fonts, all the elements you need to ignite fireworks in the magazine design. Typography is determined by choosing the fonts. As you have probably already noticed is that a huge playing field where graphic designers like to let off steam. Simply the selection of great, exciting fonts and considering like this in a magazine can be made to vibrate with other graphic elements. That was three slides from the Kigali edition in Rwanda. A special edition that we had a lot of fun at, because ...”
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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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