Introduction to Adobe InDesign
Course 2 - Texts and Tables: Practice: Composition of texts 1
By Javier Alcaraz , Editorial and Typeface Designer
About the video: Practice: Composition of texts 1
Overview
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In this video lesson Javier Alcaraz addresses the topic: Practice: Composition of texts 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 2 - Texts and Tables. Learn the essentials for working with text and tables in your editorial project.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this practice, we will apply step by step what is seen in this course. We will start importing a text to give him attributes, both character and paragraph. Then, we will also do the same with a table to create the different styles and be able to apply them to the pages of our magazine. Let's see how it is done. To start, we have a new document with absolutely nothing and what we will do is to place a text in InDesign. I will choose between a folder that you will have downloaded which is called Materials, this first one that says "The colors of citizenship." I make sure that the import op...”
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Course summary for: Course 2 - Texts and Tables

Javier Alcaraz
By Javier Alcaraz
Javier Alcaraz is a graphic designer specializing in Typographic Design and Art Direction for Editorial Design. He began his design career for Argentina newspapers and worked on developing publications and institutional communication in Ecuador. In 2004, he left Argentina for Mexico, where he worked for important publishing houses like Grupo Media and Expansión.
In 2011, he founded elcerezo, a studio that works on editorial design, branding, and typeface design for clients in Latin America and Europe, including Google, the Mexican Ministry of Culture, TetraPack, and Forbes. He currently resides in Spain.
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