Editorial Design Specialization: Magazine Creation and Layout

Course summary

• U1: Introduction

  • Introduction

  • Inspiration | Stephano Cipolla

  • Inspiration | Chris Vickers

  • Inspiration | Lars Harmsen

  • Inspiration | François Havegeer and Sacha Léopold

  • Inspiration | Diego Aresso

• U2: Editorial Design for Magazines for Beginners

  • What Is a Magazine

  • Let's Analyze the Sections of a Newspaper

  • Understanding, Interpreting, and Reporting the News

  • Preparing the Grid on Paper and Digitally

  • Working with the Text

  • Insert Texts and Dimensions 1

  • Insert Texts and Dimensions 2

  • Working with Images: Photos

  • Commission an Illustration

  • The Value of an Infographic

  • We Layout Our Images 1

  • We Layout Our Images 2

  • Alignment and Approval

  • The Importance of Teamwork

• U3: Magazine Design: How to Create Impactful Layouts

  • An Introduction to Magazines

  • The Anatomy of a Magazine

  • Our Editorial Approach

  • Our Brief and Solution

  • Typography

  • Margins and Grids

  • Content and Photography

  • Composition: Opening Spread

  • Composition: Layout of a Feature Article

  • Proofing and Review

  • Preparing for Print

  • Additional Resource: To Learn More

• U4: Editorial Design: How to Make a Magazine

  • What Is a Magazine and How Does It Work?

  • How Do You Plan a Magazine?

  • Research

  • Organizational Tools

  • Graphic Elements: Illustration, Typography, and Graphics

  • Photography: The Power of the Image

  • The Storytelling

  • The Rhythm

  • The Experimentation

  • The Design of the Cover

  • Material and Processing

  • The Printing

  • Special Editions

  • Distribution and Marketing

• U5: Graphic Design: Create a Magazine

  • Editorial design: vocabulary and principles

  • The different players in publishing

  • The principles of composition

  • The magazine "Revue Faire"

  • Analysis of the grid in place

  • The artistic direction of the issue

  • The substance and the form

  • The composition of a grid

  • The composition of the text

  • Layout

  • Creating a hedging principle

  • The choice of materials

  • Image preparation

  • The impression

• U6: Magazine Cover Design

  • What is a magazine?

  • Cover Story 1

  • Cover Story 2

  • How many types of covers are there? 1

  • How many types of covers are there? 2

  • Other classification according to the central graphic element 1

  • Other classification according to the central graphic element 2

  • How to define the base design of a cover 1

  • How to define the base design of a cover 2

  • Process of a cover with photo

  • Process of an illustrated cover

  • Process of a text cover

  • Have you thought about making a cover that is out of the ordinary?

  • Have you thought about making a magazine with an alternative format?

  • Send to printer: checklist so that the design is printed correctly

• Final project

  • Editorial Design Specialization: Magazine Creation and Layout