Editorial Design: How to Make a Magazine
The Storytelling
A course by Lars Harmsen , Creative Director and Editor
About the video: The Storytelling
Overview
“It's not just books that tell stories. Magazines too! In this lesson, I would like to try to show how this can be done using various examples. ”
In this video lesson Lars Harmsen addresses the topic: The Storytelling, 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
“The storytelling Hello and welcome to the Storytelling lesson. Storytelling is one of the big themes in magazine design. I always ask myself: Why does a magazine have to tell the stories linearly? Can't you also have a different kind of storytelling in the narratives? Still, there are clearly stories that need to be told in a very linear way, so that you can understand them. One of these stories using the comic book as an example I want to show you. That was the cover of comic issue 17 This issue focuses primarily on comic typefaces. We're doing the research came across an incredible story....”
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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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