Magazine Design-Final Coverage (Loyal,Pioco-Delacerna)

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Magazine Design

Before designing a magazine, its important

to understand the publications content and

editorial mission and goal. The initial look

and feel of the pages will create a long

lasting impression that will either draw

people in or repel them.

Basic Steps on How to Design a

Magazine

Create the publications logo and

choose a color scheme.

Select seeral fonts to be used

consistentl! throughout"for the title,

subtitle, picture captions, bod! te#t

and pull $uotes. There should be no

more than three fonts for the entire

magazine. Choose fonts that match

the desired brand image and st!le.

%n the design program &usuall!

'dobe (nDesign or )uark*press+,

begin creating the template for each

page. emember to include the

spine of the magazine, which gies

information on the magazine title,

olume number, issue theme and

date. Set the margins for each page.

-lace the logo on the coer and

determine its size and where it

should be placed for eer! issue.

Begin filling in empt! spaces with

test/ contents"articles, images,

photos, illustrations, graphs, etc

Magazine Cover Design

Coers are essential and there are

different t!pes to consider. 0hateer

choice is made, ask1 0h! would this

work with this magazine2 0hat

makes this uni$ue or appealing2

3ow does it set itself apart from

other magazine in terms of color and

st!le2

4o5word coers. This was popular in

the 67th centur! where coers wereseen more as art.

%ne image coer with one main line

"perhaps a holida! or seasonal

theme such as Thanksgiing (ssue/

or Summer (ssue./

%ne image with seeral feature

coer lines.

Bus! coer with man! images and

words as depicted b! US Weekly

andAll Youmagazines.

Coers with all graphics as seen in

Wiredand New Yorker.

Frames 5can take man! forms 8 from an

oerhanging tree, a window, a bridge,

arch or een part of another person etc.

0hen using this techni$ue 8 look for a

frame that has a similar shape to the

main sub9ect that !oure framing.

:rames can also be in the

foreground or background of images

A frame serves numerous purposes:

;. (t gies the image depth and helps

to gie the perception to iewers of it

that the!re looking at something that

is more than 6 dimensions.

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shot 8 but if !oure after a more

ordered or formal feel it can be

useful.

>. :raming can add conte#t to a

shot. ' photo of the woman in thefirst shot &left+ without the window

frame would tell !ou less than the

shot !ou see with the rustic looking

window frame around her.

Croppingis one option for fi#ing such

problems. This is usuall! done in photo

editing software &most cameras come withsoftware that will enable this+ but these da!s

man! cameras can also do it within the

camera itself.

Things to consider when cropping

Duplicate !our images first. (ts

alwa!s good to keep an original that

!ou can go back to later to find a

different wa! to crop.

Take !our time when cropping.

There are almost unlimited wa!s to

crop an image and its worth tr!ing a

few of them before settling on one.

(f !ou change the shape of !our

image this could make printing more

difficult, especiall! if !oure going to

a photo lab which generall! onl!

print in standard shapes and sizes.

Cropping works best when !oure

starting with a fairl! large image.

0hen !ou crop an image and then

tr! to iew it at the same size as it

was before !ou cropped !oull notice

that the pi#els are large. (f !oure

using small images keep this in mind

or !oull notice the $ualit! of !our

images can decrease to an unusable

leel.

:or this reason the ideal is to use

cropping as a fine tuning of a well

framed picture. 0ith e#perience

!oull find !our framing of images

gets better and !oull probabl! find

!ourself cropping drasticall! in post

production less and less.

Top 7 Most sed Fonts sed B!

"rofessiona#s $n %raphic Design:

;. He#vetica is the most heail! used

font b! professionals &and also b!

the not so professional+ in graphic

design.

6. Tra&an is an old st!le serift!peface

designed in ;?@? b!Carol Twombl!

for 'dobe. The design is based on

oman s$uare capitals, as used for

the inscription at the base of Tra9ans

Columnfrom which the t!peface

takes its name.

=. %aramond used ersion toda! is the

'dobe Aaramondersion &as seen

aboe+ released in ;?@?. Aaramond

is a great font for magazines'

te(t)oo*s' we)sites and #ong

)odies of te(tand was recentl!

named the second best font &after

3eletica+ b! a Aerman publication.

+ Futura is a font that comes

up often in #arge disp#a!s' #ogos'

corporate t!pefaces and in )oo*s

where sma## te(t is needed

, Bodoni is a great font for

head#ines' decorative te(t and
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#ogos- has a narrow under#!ing

structure with f#at' un)rac*eted

serifs-

. Bic*ham Script "ro sed

main#! for forma# occasions-

7 Frutiger is neither strict#!

geometric nor humanistic in

construction/ its forms are

designed so that each individua#

character is 0uic*#! and easi#!

recognized-

The grid s!stem5 is used in graphic design

as a wa! toorganizing content on a page.

5are used in newspaper and magazine

la!outs. The! organize information into rows

and columns of te#t, images, margins, etc.

These guidelines define the basic elements

such as the1

headlines,

te#t

photos,

'dantage to working with this

s!stem is that it simplifies the design

process b! proiding the basic

structure for each page.

' designer can use a single grid, or

seeral different ones throughout a

publication to deelop a consistent,

unified look . ' well5deeloped grid

s!stem allows for interesting

ariations while the oerall la!out

remains unified.

Designing (nteriors

0hen designing a magazine interior, the

goal is to present information in a wa! that

is both isuall! compelling and well

organized.

Margins 5preent information fromaccidentall! being cut off during

printing b! keeping it a safe distance

from the edges of the page.

3eaders5can e#periment with

unusual t!pographic treatment and

decoratie or script fonts if

appropriate.

ump lines 5should contrast from the

main te#t in order to set thisinformation apart.

nd Signs5Bullet points or graphics

inserted at the end of an article. nd

signs signal the end of a stor! to

readers.

-ull )uotes5These are $uotations or

highlights pulled from the article and

set apart, usuall! at a larger size,

different font and color from theprimar! te#t. -ull $uotes emphasize

important parts of the stor! and

create a isuall! interesting graphic

element

A#ignment 1is to find a strong element

on !our page to align something

against. 'n!thing that is 9ust a little out

of alignment will look like a mistake.

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Magazine Design-Final Coverage (Loyal,Pioco-Delacerna)