Questions tagged [editorial-design]
Questions about creating layouts, constructing grids and building multipage documents such as magazines, reports, brochures, newspapers etc.
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How to Create effect of dynamic image by using a red acetate in Photoshop?
✨ I'm a design student and I'm currently working on my thesis project. For the the cover I want to create an effect similar to the cover of "made you look" by Sagmeister. The cover uses an ...
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Do printshops charge more to non-designer clients?
Whenever I go to a printshop I try to give them the most suitable and high quality print-ready files, so that they do not need to take any extra steps or adjust things on the way (although they ...
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Typography, editorial design, editorial practice, copy editing
I tried to figure these things myself, but with no luck yet. Maybe because I'm a foreigner and a complexity of terminology mixes with a complexity of English. And so the question. It consists of four ...
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Who designed the Life Magazine in 1936? Who was responsible for the whole visual look of the magazine?
I can't find any editorial designers from the period 1930-1950, who worked for that magazine. Who created the logo? who made all those decissions in design? Even other important 1930s graphic designer ...
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Replicating margins. columns and grid of an existing design layout InDesign CC
If I find a layout example that I like and want to imitate the grid layout whats the easiest way to go about it? Right now I have the example on a layer and just putting ruler guides on it to figure ...
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Feedback on interface for school exams' editor
I'm making a webapp for my local university, which allows teachers to create exams made up of open-ended/multiple-choice questions and JavaScript programming exercises, as well as group them by topic ...
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InDesign best practice for headings in separate columns
I'm wondering if there is a better way to set up this type of layout where the headings are in the left column, and the body copy is in the right column. Currently I am using a separate text box for ...
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GREP: Change spaces for tabs in specific conditions
I want to know the way in InDesign with GREPs, if possible, to any paragraph that starts with numbers followed by a period and a space ("00" + [.] + [space]"), and replace the space for ...
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Post-processing inDesign layouts? When to transfer to photoshop, illustrator, and in what order?
I know that there are a lot of similar questions on this topic and at the end of the day, it is a flexible process that really just comes down to personal preference, but I'm seeking some insight. I ...
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Do you know some successors of the designer Alexey Brodovitch?
I think his work is amazing and I would explore some designer inspired by his design's approach, here an example of Alexey Brodovitch work:
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Copy & paste artwork with editable text from Adobe Illustrator to InDesign?
I can't believe it: when pasting some diagram drawing with text from Illustrator to InDesign, text is not completely editable and becomes broken. I would like to adjust text in InDesign brochure ...
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DTP: Words or characters that shouldn't be left at the end of the line
Recently I was given a task to check and correct design on catalogues in eleven languages. Unfortunately noone cares how the text is formatted, so now I'm trying to collect rules for each language ...
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Paragraph Orphans
My teacher said that, technically, an orphan have at least 3 characters or less at the end of a paragraph or column. But mostly on every site about design and type I always find that an orphan is just ...
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Converting a Customer's designs in Powerpoint into InDesign
My client would like a catalogue designed using PDFs that they already have. These PDFs have been exported for web use so I don't believe they will be good enough quality for print. I have asked if ...
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How to present page layouts in a portfolio
A student came to see me today, debating on how she should be presenting her page layout work to apply in a very selective B.A. in graphic design. I have a lot of page layout work in my portfolio, ...
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