Friday 23rd January

Today we had the pleasure of meeting Joao and with him we went though the basics of how to use InDesign as well as looking at how different magazines use layout and typography within them. I found the session extremely useful and informative and feel that the skills taught during these session will be of great use.

Joao went through the ‘Grid System’ and explained how it is used throughout the industry to create the desired layout. He explained that text boxes with simple squares with lines in them like a notebook, and an image has a big cross in them. He then went on to explain that the gutter is extremely important and that when making a book it can be crucial as you need the right amount to ensure the pages fit together in a way that the content doesn’t get lost within the seam.

Further more went through the idea of editorial flow and how pages need to make sense as you go thought them. The bleed were told is normally 3mm as you always overlap the page to ensure that you don’t get a white border around the edge of the page.

I addition to this he showed us example of parallax scrolling which I thought was brilliant and extremely clever. The idea of scrolling down but not actually scrolling down many pages is genius! I loved the animation of it all and the fun aspect it possess.

And finally he listed many different magazines that we should have a look at such as:

-VOLT
-ANOTHER MAN
-GENTLEWOMAN
-FANTASTIC MAN
-PURPLE
-P MAGAZINE
-VISIONAIRE
-HEART