From the course: Magazine Design: Getting Started
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DNA of the cover - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Magazine Design: Getting Started
DNA of the cover
- When I look at magazines for design, it almost doesn't matter to me what the title and topic are. I'll pick up almost anything. That's how I wind up with business magazines, and motorcycle magazines, and cooking magazines, and political magazines, and fashion, and sports, and indie, and history, and music, and art, and foreign magazines, which can be tons of fun. If it moves me in some way, I'll dive in, and look for what's making that feel. I'm generally at this point, not reading closely. That may sound funny because editorial and graphics are so vitally linked. But it's not really. Before you read a magazine, you feel it. You pick up a vibe from it. Or you should. That's what I'm interested in first. Some designs are new and amazing, and I love that. Others are just really well executed renditions of things I've seen before. I like that too. There's also a lot of roughage. Copycatting, commercialism, things like that. But even there, you can often pick out good stuff. In some…
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