Editorial Design: How to Make a Magazine
The Rhythm
A course by Lars Harmsen , Creative Director and Editor
About the video: The Rhythm
Overview
“What if a magazine is not understood as a container for information, but as a piece of music? How does a magazine feel that can be read like a poem? These two questions already answer everything that this lesson is about. ”
In this video lesson Lars Harmsen addresses the topic: The Rhythm, 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 rhythm Welcome to the next lesson. This is about the subject of music, actually about the subject of rhythm. Music is a constant companion and I can't read pieces of music. I can't read sheet music. I'm a lousy musician too. But I believe that music is something which is clearly characterized by rhythm and repetitions. Recurring things that keep redefining themselves. When you think of magazines Of course, one can also think that a magazine is like a piece of music. It might be a good idea to start before you start designing, to worry about it. If my magazine were a piece of music, what...”
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Course summary for: Editorial Design: How to Make a Magazine
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Areas
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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