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Creative Magazine Layout Design

Laura KeungLessons: 11Length: 1.4 hours
Magazine DesignAdobe InDesignGraphic DesignPrint DesignMagazine Templates
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1.2 Design Assets and Software

Before diving into the design part of this course, let’s take a look at what we need. Let’s briefly take a look at Envato Elements and the amazing assets they offer for any of your projects.

We will be creating a sports/lifestyle magazine called Connect. “A magazine for visionaries” will be the tagline, and we’ll use Lorem Ipsum text. For this course, we're using the following photos and fonts, but feel free to choose your own and create a unique design.

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1.Introduction
2 lessons, 02:45

1.1
Introduction to Creative Magazine Layout Design
01:24

1.2
Design Assets and Software
01:21

2.Setting Up an InDesign File for Magazines
4 lessons, 26:14

2.1
Creating an InDesign File, Creating Grids, and Organizing Layers
03:56

2.2
Typographic Hierarchy: Designing a Preliminary Article and Paragraph Styles
12:00

2.3
Creating and Grabbing Color Swatches
05:13

2.4
Creating Master Pages and Consistent Folios
05:05

3.Designing a Magazine Cover
1 lesson, 09:03

3.1
Designing a Magazine Cover: Tips and Tricks
09:03

4.Creating Layouts
3 lessons, 43:25

4.1
Designing a Contents Page
08:39

4.2
Designing an Article
10:58

4.3
Breaking the Rules
23:48

5.Conclusion
1 lesson, 01:55

5.1
Conclusion
01:55

1.2 Design Assets and Software

Hi there and welcome back. Before diving into the design of this course, let's take a look at what we need. Let's briefly look at the Envato Elements and the amazing assets they offer for any of your projects. They have a collection of themes where you can find anything you need and a very extensive font library. The fonts for this course will be Bw Gradual, Bergen Mono, and Redtown. To install the fonts open font book, I already have them installed here. But you can open each folder and drag the files into font book. For this course we will be creating a sports lifestyle magazine called Connect. The tagline will be Amazing For Visionaries. And we'll be using Lorem Ipsum text. These are some of the images that we will be using in this course. And you can find the links on the description below. The software of choice for these courses Adobe InDesign. This is page design software that is perfect for creating publications. You can download a trial from the Adobe website. You're more than welcome to use any other software for your choice, but keep in mind that some of the options might not be available. Okay, and we're ready to start. On the next lesson you will learn how to set up an InDesign file for a magazine, and the steps you can take to create an organized file. I'll see you there

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Laura Keung
Laura Keung
Laura is a design writer, design mentor, and entrepreneur leading Laura Keung Studio, currently based in Munich, Germany. She had her first design client during her first year of university and since then she fell in love with the design process. Laura studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Toronto before interning at renowned studios in Canada and Austria. With 12 years of experience in the design industry, Laura leads her own design studio and collaborates with other creatives on branding and editorial design projects.