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Magazine Cover Design in Adobe InDesign

Laura KeungLessons: 10Length: 56 minutes
Graphic Design Adobe InDesign
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1.1 Introduction

The most important part of magazine design is creating an eye-catching cover.

If you want your magazine to find an audience, you need to create a compelling cover that draws potential readers in and has instant visual impact.

In this course, you'll learn how to design a magazine cover from start to finish. Learn everything from the basic anatomy of a magazine cover and how to use a magazine cover template for fast results, through to choosing a cover image and fonts for your own custom design.

You'll also experience the process of designing a fashion magazine and a sports magazine from beginning to end. After this course, you’ll be able to confidently design a functional and powerful magazine cover. So let’s get started!

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1.Introduction
4 lessons, 13:00

1.1
Introduction
00:55

1.2
The Anatomy of a Magazine Cover
03:37

1.3
Choosing a Cover Image
03:59

1.4
Choosing Fonts
04:29

2.Customizing a Magazine Cover Template
2 lessons, 08:03

2.1
Choosing a Magazine Cover Template and Image
03:40

2.2
Editing a Magazine Cover Template in InDesign
04:23

3.Designing a Magazine Cover
3 lessons, 34:03

3.1
Setting Up an InDesign File
01:47

3.2
Designing a Fashion Magazine Cover
11:13

3.3
Designing a Sports Magazine Cover
21:03

4.Conclusion
1 lesson, 01:04

4.1
Conclusion
01:04

1.1 Introduction

Hi, my name is Laura and welcome to this course magazine cover design in InDesign [MUSIC] Catch magazine cover is a great way to boost your sales and attract audience. A well designed magazine cover is orchestrated by a number of different elements that create curiosity about what's inside the magazine. In this course, we will take a look at the different elements that make up a magazine cover. How to choose suitable fonts in a striking photos, how to edit, ready to print magazine cover templates from envato elements that can save you tons of time. And how to design a fashion magazine cover and a sports magazine cover for specific audience. You will learn how to set up and assign all the different elements in the magazine in a unified manner, to create an excellent magazine cover. So let's get started

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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 has fallen 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.