InDesign Workshops: Flatplanning/Magazine Layouts

Learning about the basics of a magazine layout and stripping down the content to a simplified flat plan of the bare minimum is very effective in me developing my learning for InDesign as it makes everything more easier to translate and draw out physically. As i learn better when drawing things out by hand and planning my work by hand rather than straight online, it was helpful to learn about magazines this way because I always felt that layout was very complicated and time consuming as there are many elements to creating and understanding how and where all the images, text and typography and titles are placed.

We had to find a magazine spread, article etc. and pick it apart by drawing it out by hand, showing where the pictures are by drawing a square with an ‘X’ in the middle etc., showing where the text is by drawing lines across etc. This allowed me to then recreate this on InDesign using filler text, text boxes and default images to get myself more confident with using the program.