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 se eral fonts to be used consistentl! throughout"for the title, subtitle, picture captions, bod! te#t and pull $uotes. There should be no more than three fonts for the entire magazine. Choose fonts that match the desired brand image and st!le. %n the design program &usuall! 'dobe (nDesign or )uark*press+, begin creating the template for each page. ,emember to include the spine of the magazine, which gi es information on the magazine title, olume number, issue theme and date. Set the margins for each page. -lace the logo on the co er and determine its size and where it should be placed for e er! issue. Begin filling in empt! spaces with .test/ contents"articles, images, photos, illustrations, graphs, etc Magazine Cover Design Co ers are essential and there are different t!pes to consider. 0hate er choice is made, ask1 0h! would this work with this magazine2 0hat makes this uni$ue or appealing2

3ow does it set itself apart from other magazine in terms of color and st!le2 4o5word co ers. This was popular in the 67th centur! where co ers were seen more as art. %ne image co er with one main line "perhaps a holida! or seasonal theme such as .Thanksgi ing (ssue/ or .Summer (ssue./ %ne image with se eral feature co er lines. Bus! co er with man! images and words as depicted b! US Weekly and All You magazines. Co ers with all graphics as seen in Wired and New Yorker. Frames 5can take man! forms 8 from an o erhanging tree, a window, a bridge, arch or e en 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 gi es the image depth and helps to gi e the perception to iewers of it that the!re looking at something that is more than 6 dimensions. 6. <se correctl!, framing can draw the e!e of the iewer of an interest to a particular part of the scene. =. :raming can bring a sense of organization or containment to an image. This wont work with e er!

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 the first shot &left+ without the window frame would tell !ou less than the shot !ou see with the rustic looking window frame around her.

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 le el. :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 $n %raphic Design: ;. He#vetica is the most hea il! used font b! professionals &and also b! the not so professional+ in graphic design. 6. Tra&an is an old st!le serif t!peface designed in ;?@? b! Carol Twombl! for 'dobe. The design is based on ,oman s$uare capitals, as used for the inscription at the base of Tra9ans Column from which the t!peface takes its name. =. %aramond used ersion toda! is the 'dobe Aaramond ersion &as seen abo e+ released in ;?@?. Aaramond is a great font for magazines' te(t)oo*s' we)sites and #ong )odies of te(t and was recentl! named the second best font &after 3el etica+ 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

Cropping is one option for fi#ing such problems. This is usuall! done in photo editing software &most cameras come with software 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

#ogos- has a narrow under#!ing structure with f#at' un)rac*eted serifs. 7 Bic*ham Script "ro sed main#! for forma# occasionsFrutiger is neither strict#! geometric nor humanistic in construction/ its forms are designed so that each individua# character is 0uic*#! and easi#! recognized-

0hen designing a magazine interior, the goal is to present information in a wa! that is both isuall! compelling and well organized. Margins 5pre ent information from accidentall! 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 decorati e or script fonts if appropriate. Bump lines 5should contrast from the main te#t in order to set this information apart. Cnd Signs5Bullet points or graphics inserted at the end of an article. Cnd 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 the primar! 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.

The grid s!stem5 is used in graphic design as a wa! to organizing 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, 'd antage to working with this s!stem is that it simplifies the design process b! pro iding the basic structure for each page. ' designer can use a single grid, or se eral different ones throughout a publication to de elop a consistent, unified look . ' well5de eloped grid s!stem allows for interesting ariations while the o erall la!out remains unified. Designing (nteriors