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Editorial with Stephen (Workshop 2)


In my second workshop with Stephen, the main topic was Editorial design. We was focusing on the US standard size for the size of the In Design spread.

What is editorial design?
Editorial design is for magazines and websites. Once designed, this would be passed on to someone to code.

The workshop
We started off by setting our page up. I used the following settings below:

Once I set up my spread, I then pasted in the image we was using to refer too and scaled up to my margin. I reduced the opacity to 50% so I was able to see what work I was doing on top of the image.

I stared working with kerning, tracking and working with scale in order to scale the letters Alanis to fit similar to the document on the back. The reason why we was playing with these metrics and spaces was for us to have more attention to detail and to work away from the default settings.  Below shows the settings I decided to go for and what this looked like.
Below shows after me playing with distorting and rendering text.

This part of the workshop was to help us get use to the different components. We then moved on to use make another page and was working on a different editorial spread. I used the path tool with no fill and a stroke of 2 to make a path. Below shows the path I made.
I then added text by holding down on the type tool and choosing type on a path tool and I placed some placeholder text.
I moved to illustrator where I worked with making an image of a rat as a silhouette. I simplified this and then copied and pasted the vector back into In Design. I also worked with placing the image so that the text would surround it. Below shows what I worked on.

After learning the basic tools, our task was to create an editorial style spread including some of the elements we learnt today. I created two.

This is the first concept I created. I worked with Bitmap in Photoshop and then used In Design to work colours. I worked with changing the colour of the typography, working with kerning, tracking, baseline shift and skew in order to distort my type. After this I decided to go back and work with the image in our to make it slightly distorted. I like this as it reminds me of aliens and surreal and un-natural elements.

Finally I played around with the text and used 'Andale Mono' as it reminded me of coding text/html code text. I really like this it reminds me of movie titles at the start of action films or James Bond.

Conclusion
I really enjoyed this workshop and I feel happier with working with In Design.
I also enjoyed working for the few minutes in Illustrator and changing the image of a rat to an illustration.
Overall I really enjoyed today and feel better working with In Design then I did last week as In my previous workshop I really struggled with the posters however I feel more at ease now.

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