Newspaper Design: Bring Stories to Life
Grids
A course by Harry Hepburn, Graphic Designer
About the video: Grids
Overview
“We will now cover the basics of grids as well as set up our own publication’s grid.”
In this video lesson Harry Hepburn addresses the topic: Grids, which is part of the Domestika online course: Newspaper Design: Bring Stories to Life. Transform editorial content into a compelling visual story that both intrigues and informs readers.
Partial transcription of the video
“Grids are essential. Editorial design is about bringing structure and order to a lot of different elements. And grids can help maintain that order. Far from being restrictive, grids can be liberating. allowing the designer to spend more time on typing image. It's functional. logical and aesthetically pleasing. Information that's set out in a clear and structured way will not only be consumed quickly by the reader, it will also appear more authoritative. I'm going to show you how to set up a basic grid. But first it's useful to run through a glossary of the terms used. margins. This is the s...”
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Course summary for: Newspaper Design: Bring Stories to Life
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Harry Hepburn
A course by Harry Hepburn
Harry Hepburn is a London-based graphic designer, who specializes in editorial design, specifically for newspapers. Growing up, he was always reading magazines and newspapers and eventually went on to study at art college. There, the then art director of The Sunday Times set a task to redesign the first three pages of the newspaper. Harry quickly became fascinated with newspaper design and was offered his first job in the industry by the same director.
Since then, Harry has worked for publications like The Telegraph, as well as The Sunday Times, helping them to tell important stories with his clean, concise, but punchy style. He’s also won several awards including the Society of Publication Designers Merit Award and the World’s Best Designed Newspaper along with his team in 2019.
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