Editorial Design: How to Make a Magazine
The Experimentation
A course by Lars Harmsen , Creative Director and Editor
About the video: The Experimentation
Overview
“Open the windows from time to time and ventilate deeply! In plain language, this means: changing perspectives, trying things that you wouldn't do otherwise. The best way to do this is to experiment. That's what I want to encourage in this lesson. ”
In this video lesson Lars Harmsen addresses the topic: The Experimentation, 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 experimentation Hello and welcome to the next lesson, where experiments are concerned. I always think it's good to experiment a lot and other ways Tried things that you hadn't done before or just next to the great love, that one has, still has a second love, tried something else what you usually only do as a hobby, but gives the whole thing a certain seriousness. In my case it is together with Markus Lange a screen printing project I've been doing for many years, since 2015, Poster Rex is the name of the whole thing. We invite designers we know and print posters with them. On the way we...”
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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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