From the course: Magazine Design: Getting Started
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Making a magazine: Introduction - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Magazine Design: Getting Started
Making a magazine: Introduction
- Get out your pencil and make some notes. If you're making a new magazine, or reworking an existing one, and trying to work out a look, it may help to ask the following questions: I want to emphasize that you're going for a unique voice. You're working to a vision, so you want to avoid creating a facade. Just to look off the shelf; maybe something you've done before, or from a template, or something you just make up. If your collaborators, the publisher, the editors, the writers can't articulate that vision for you, do everything you can to hang in until you have one. You as a designer can play an important role here. So, questions: Is your magazine mostly serious, or entertaining? If it's serious, is it introvert, or extrovert? If it's entertaining, is it quiet and dry, or loud and showy? Do you and your audience know each other? This would usually be the case with a small, closed group, a club, an organization, a school, a professional network. Similar would be an indie magazine. A…
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