Editorial Design: How to Make a Magazine
Photography: The Power of the Image
A course by Lars Harmsen , Creative Director and Editor
About the video: Photography: The Power of the Image
Overview
“Illustrated books, and by that I mean books, are often opulent and impressive, but I find it even more impressive when you manage to tell a whole story within a few pictures/pages. This is a high art, especially in magazine design: reducing things to the essentials and still making powerful statements. ”
In this video lesson Lars Harmsen addresses the topic: Photography: The Power of the Image, 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
“photography the power of the image Hello to this lesson, which is about the topic of photography. I would like to start right away with a quote: "How to explain mankind to man through pictures." It is clear that in an edition, which is about typography or graphic design, in our case the question is: Why do we even need photography? Photography can create a lot of excitement and explain a lot. I unpacked the Mono Space output here, we actually, that surprises me myself, designed in 2010. Inside is a photo spread by Martin Miller, that we have depicted to in contrast to the graphic work but a...”
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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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