Publication Design
Project 2: Editorial Feature
Description
Design a cover, featured table of contents, and featured article layout for It's Nice That magazine. You will choose the article from their website but will not use any of their branding. You can use as many of the images from the article as you would like and also can use the pull quotes from the article or choose your own.
We will explore the principles of editorial design, InDesign page set-up (facing pages, parent pages, columns, margins, gutter, folios and automatic page numbering, running heads), font pairings, pt. size / leading, etc.
Requirements
Page Size
- 7" by 10"
Magazine Booklet
- Cover
- Featured Table of Contents
- Featured Article
- Back Cover
Article Options
- Has judging a book by it’s cover gone to far?
- It’s-a-me!” Celebrating the craft-first approach of Mario, 40 years young
- Calling The Shots: Queering the history of photography with the V&A
- Watermelon Pictures is the film company putting Palestinian cinema where it belongs — on the big screen
- Can you taste design?
Things to Keep in Mind
- Avoid trite designs
- Do not use illustration as a default
- Always better to go too far than not go far enough
- Printing takes time, as does trimming
- Page count needs to be in multiples of four
Objectives
- Improving typographic, craft, and InDesign skills
- Applying design concepts
Checkpoints
- two digital cover concepts, printed and trimmed in color
- refined jacket concept, two interior spread concepts, two featured contents concepts
- refined full cover, full interior designed
- final cover, refined interior
- printed, trimmed, and bound final draft, digital mockups
Final Submission
- Turned in on time (4/8/26)
- Printed trimmed, and bound magazine
- PDF of magazine (cover, interior as spreads)
- Photos of physical magazine
- All images and pdfs on Canvas