Editorial design
Under Editorial Design ( english to edit , 'edit) refers to the figures of periodicals, newspapers, magazines, brochures and books.
In design practice, editorial design takes place in direct connection with editorial work, i. H. in collaboration with editors , photographers and illustrators . In addition to the design of the cover , the editorial design also includes the development of a design grid for the content and the overall visual design of entire issues. The selection and placement of photos, typography and typesetting give the whole thing a recognizable character and should both give each article a look that matches the content and shape the overall appearance of the medium.
The layout and typography are defined for print products , but also the corporate design (style, visual language , color character , advertising measures ...) in editorial design . In detail for the print product and accompanying, advertising media:
- format
- Type area
- Fonts, usually as families for different text modules, such as headings, running texts, comments, captions, etc.
- White space (placement, distances, image sizes) or ratio of text to image to total area
- Length and placement of texts
- Selection, size and placement of photos, graphics, information boxes, decorative elements ...
- Coloring (colors of fonts, backgrounds, graphic elements, color images, color character of the images)
literature
- Christof Gassner : Everyday life, ecology, design - creating environmental magazines . Hermann Schmidt, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-87439-308-9 .
- Michael Meissner: Newspaper design. Typography, typesetting and printing, layout and make-up . 3. Edition. Paperback, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-430-20032-6 .
- Nikola Wachsmuth, Heike Gläser: Editorial Design - Magazine design . 2nd Edition. Stiebner, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-8307-1432-3 .
See also
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- ^ Prof. Peter Wippermann, University of Duisburg / Essen ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Prof. Peter Wippermann, Folkwang University of the Arts / Essen ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )