Editorial Design: How to Make a Magazine
The Design of the Cover
A course by Lars Harmsen , Creative Director and Editor
About the video: The Design of the Cover
Overview
“For some designers, the cover is the very beginning of their considerations when designing an editorial project. That may often be true. However, when designing a magazine, I find it easier to work on it over and over again. Or at the very end, namely when you have got a feeling for its content. Maybe there will be "happy accidents"... ”
In this video lesson Lars Harmsen addresses the topic: The Design of the Cover, 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
“This lesson focuses on the topic of cover. There are. of course. various strategies for how this can be approached. This strategy demonstrates a scenario where. in essence. the parameters remain almost unchanged. Only the color is The decisive moment. I find it remarkable how reports consistently maintain this from the very first day. ensuring continuity and And then yes. sticking to this strategy. because the covers don't really differ much from each other as such. Also here at Gentlewoman. a magazine I greatly admire. Ultimately. it's about the color. yet it's not solely the color; it's t...”
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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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