InDesign Workshops: Typography/Filler Text/Bleed

Our InDesign workshops are very useful for me as I know that using programs such as InDesign are definitely a weakness of mine and I don’t really enjoy using it, however, I am aware of just how important it is for the development of my progress in not only this zine project, but also my degree as it’s such a widely used and useful program in the world of fashion communication to create magazine spreads, layouts, lookbooks, zines, posters and leaflets therefore learning the basics will come in handy for the future.

We earnt different methods such as setting up the bleed which will help me with the magazine so I don’t accidentally print something that gets cut off, which is useful to know when printing lookbooks or anything with imagery that can’t afford to be cut off at the beginning. I’ve also learnt how to insert images of a certain size and shape which is useful for em to add in other things to the page as well as images or to have some white space to really highlight the image instead of it all being one page. Inserting filler text was something I really hadn’t thought about before as it never crossed my mind how important and useful it could be. I can now lay out a magazine spread with text and articles using filter text to fill the space while i can imagine what the page will look like effectively. We also learned some typographic methods of deislayi gout text such as writing on a ath, so we can create text written in the shape of  circle which is more interesting ad gripping than if it were just always written on a straight line.

Although these workshops are very useful for me, I was planning on having my zine made in a more tactile way, creating collages and illustrations by hand in my sketch book or lose sheets of paper then moving them into photoshop and scanning them in as that’s personally how I feel best working, ad how my bes work has come out. Although I know I will still need to use InDesign for layout purposes and for moving things around.