Editorial Design: How to Make a Magazine
The Printing
A course by Lars Harmsen , Creative Director and Editor
About the video: The Printing
Overview
“Everything can go wrong when printing, because at this point you hand over your work and have to trust the skills of others. So it's important to be there as much as possible. Not only to test, but also to create trust, to learn, to see differently and to take something away from this experience for future projects. ”
In this video lesson Lars Harmsen addresses the topic: The Printing, 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 pressure Welcome to the next lesson. This is about the topic of printing, printed sheets, printing machines, finishing, Use of printed sheets. I'll start with a bit of theory first and then we look at some spreads, to illustrate it a little bit better. Nowadays there are far more possibilities produce and print magazines. The most common one we all know is of course offset. But digital printing has found its way into the market and is particularly interesting for smaller editions. Printing from the roll is probably an area that you don't come into contact with very often because the req...”
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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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