Editorial Design: How to Make a Magazine
Organizational Tools
A course by Lars Harmsen, Creative Director and Editor
About the video: Organizational Tools
Overview
“You might make your first magazine on your own. But what happens when it comes to teamwork? What are the tools you can fall back on? How can you organize a Call for Entries? What do you have to consider when creating a crowdfunding campaign? And why do you need scissors, a large wall and a photographic memory? You can find out all of this here! ”
In this video lesson Lars Harmsen addresses the topic: Organizational Tools, 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
“Yes. hello! Nice to see you for the next lesson. In this one. i want to tell you how we work as a team. Because in our case. it often happens that everyone lives in a different city. Yet. we still create a magazine together. Each of us is in a different city. so it's important that we organize ourselves well. one of the Tools I love working with. With my team. dropbox. which you probably know. requires some discipline. but here you have constant over where your data is stored and how it is updated. I find Miro quite effective for generating ideas. as it allows for easy sharing and organizat...”
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Course summary for: Editorial Design: How to Make a Magazine
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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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