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Design tips for brochures, e-books, flyers and more.

Part Two: Feature spreads Create 4-6 pages. Must Include: Title, author, photo credits, two pull-quotes, minimum of 4 images across 2 s...

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Magazine spread is two pages that are next to each other. Each spread works as one unit. It is not two pages separated but two pages that work together to create one unit. When designing magazines it is vital to look at these two pages as one single element even if those pages are going to...

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Columns are essential tools to standardize your layout. They will help you in getting order and structure of your magazine, but do resist to imprison your thinking into standard format because rigidity dulls the creativity. To avoid that trap you can play with column width and shapes. You should...

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The element of a page that we will talk about today has many names. Some refer to it as deck, other as kicker, standfirst or intro. So many names for one single element which plays a big role in providing information and grabbing readers attention. In this article we will call this element...

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Margins are very important part of any publication design. To set up a type and leading sizes you have to set up columns, and to set up the columns you have to start with proper margins. Margins contribute to the effect of the overall design and the white space surrounding them creates a sense...

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Just like each page has its own structure so does the magazine. Todays magazines follow the same structure and although there are magazines that do not follow this approach we can say that this is a default one. In the future posts we will cover some of the pages presented in this article in...

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Lucienne Roberts looks at the history of the grid, which embodies all the contradictions that designers struggle with, in this Graphics.com article.

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A game to help you master the pen tool

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Probably the most important magazine page element is the body text or body copy as some refer to it. Magazine readers do not notice properly set body text. They notice nice images, powerful headlines, but they do not notice body text. And this is a good thing. Properly adjusted body text should...

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From gothic text to black metal band logos, we unpack the visual design of heavy metal.

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From the Rule of Thirds to symmetry, Steve McCurry's photos show you how you step up your photography game.

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MagazinePublisher.com gives you a few design tips and tricks for producing a professional magazine look.

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Photoshop is so full of powerful features that even professionals may not always be able to keep up. This video demonstrates a ton of uncommon yet powerful techniques that you might not have heard of before.

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I’m much more comfortable with Adobe Illustrator than Photoshop, but I enjoyed this short video about Photoshop users talking about the powerful image editing application. For over two decade…

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