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Magazine Columns – Backbone of Every Good Layout
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...
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Magazine Spreads – Good and Bad Practices
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...
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Setting up, Types and Description of Page Margins
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...
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Magazine Masthead Creation
Magazines and newspapers are basically consumer goods, and, like any consumer goods they are brands and, like any other brand they got to have a logo. A magazine masthead. Masthead’s role is to be...
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Pull-quotes
One of the page elements that brings visual power to the page is the pull-quote. Pull-quote is a display element which is used to attract the reader and to break up long blocks of text. The effect of...
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What to Do With Picture Captions?
Next in the series where we talk about page elements are picture captions. Believe it or not people really do read picture captions. Even more than intros or pull quotes. Pictures draw attention of the...
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When and How to Redesign a Magazine
Today in modern magazine publishing, magazines are being redesigned every few years. I think we can call this 2013, a year of redesigns because so many famous magazines had opted for the change in the...
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Intro, Deck, Standfirst or Kicker
Natural flow of text elements in an article. Headline, intro, body copy. 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...
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Introduction to Magazine Cover Pages
Magazine cover page serves several purposes. It sells the brand, it has to be visually appealing and different from the other cover pages on the newsstand to attract the new readers. On the other hand...
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55 Best Tips for a Successful Magazine Cover
After we introduced you to the world of magazine covers, this post will give you some general tips about cover design and headline writing. Of course you will have to be the judge if these concepts...
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