Photographic Artwork for Editorial Covers
Researching and Exploring Materials
A course by Party of One Studio , Creative Studio
Joined February 2022
About the video: Researching and Exploring Materials
Overview
“After the sketching phase, you should be left with some loose ideas. Now it's time to really build them out! In this lesson, we will take stock of the items needed to physically create the set. We will pull from existing props, create a shopping list, and decide what needs to be altered. ”
In this video lesson Party of One Studio addresses the topic: Researching and Exploring Materials, which is part of the Domestika online course: Photographic Artwork for Editorial Covers. Blur the lines between photography and illustration to create dynamic editorial compositions through set design, prop styling, and typography.
Partial transcription of the video
“Researching and Exploring Materials Now we have our final concept approved and we can start building our image. We have our sketch as a basis but we'll start exploring the various options we have with props to see what's available to us and what we can arrange into our final image. In our sketch, we had some loose ideas but now is when we really build it out. You can see here, anything can be a prop. Even if it's not perfect as is, it can be modified or digitally changed later in post. The power of Photoshop. You can find your props anywhere. For example, right before we got this assignment...”
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Course summary for: Photographic Artwork for Editorial Covers
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Photography & Video -
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Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Lightroom Classic, Adobe Photoshop -
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Art Direction, Graphic Design, Photographic Composition, Studio Photography

Party of One Studio
A course by Party of One Studio
Party of One is a creative studio in Brooklyn, New York, led by Melissa Deckert and Nicole Licht. They met while working as in-house designers at Etsy and, in 2018, decided to combine their experience and start their own studio specializing in story-driven visuals for brands, products, and publications.
Melissa and Nicole work closely with clients on a wide range of projects—from set design and visual campaigns, to brand identities, and editorial illustrations. Their commercial clients include Otherland, Sunwink, and Columbia University, and they’ve also created editorial cover artwork for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.
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