Up your graphic design game by adding some new fonts to your collection. Here are six lovely serif and slab serif fonts that I’ve found, and love using in my personal projects. They are all free to download from their respective websites. Enjoy! Download serif and slab serif fonts: Font 1 – OFL Sorts Mill Goudy,…
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How to make a website navigation bar
The ‘nav bar’ is one of the first things people see when they visit your website. It’s one of the first things that could guide users to journey through your website, visiting your pages and exploring your content. So, it’s pretty important that you get it right! There’s no steadfast way of having a nav…
Introduction to Adobe Photoshop CS6
A friend of mine recently asked me to give them a crash course in the basics of Photoshop CS6. No fancy image retouching here – simply learning some basic actions to draw shapes, colour them, and handle the introduction of adding text and imagery to your canvas. I wrote her a little guide as an…
Creating a double page magazine contents spread in Adobe InDesign
As part of my Production Lab project I aimed to create a sample magazine contents spread from scratch in Adobe InDesign. There were several stages which guided this process; research and inspiration, tutorials, practical work, feedback, and responding to that feedback. Research I researched creating sample contents spreads in several different ways. Firstly, I created accounts…
Creating a sample magazine feature layout in Adobe InDesign
As part of my Production Lab project I aimed to create a sample feature layout from scratch in Adobe InDesign. There were several stages which guided this process; research and inspiration, tutorials, practical work, feedback, and responding to that feedback. Research Firstly, I used examples to help guide how I wanted to layout my feature aesthetically. I…
Creating a magazine cover in Adobe InDesign
As part of my Production Lab project I aimed to create a magazine cover from scratch in Adobe InDesign. There were several stages which guided this process; research and inspiration, tutorials, practical work, feedback, and responding to that feedback. Research I researched creating a cover in several different ways. Firstly, I created accounts on Pinterest…
‘Basics of Design 02: Layout’ by Ambrose & Harris – Literature Review
I was recommended this book by my tutor on the FEED Certificate in Graphic Design. When I told him about my Production Lab project to design a sample magazine layout from scratch in InDesign, this book was the first resource that came to mind. I tracked down a copy and gave it a read. The…
7 tutorials for creating magazine layouts in Adobe InDesign
My main objective for my Production Lab project is to create sample layouts for pages of Chatoyant emagazine. I plan to create a front cover, contents page and sample feature. To do this, I used tutorials to guide my work within InDesign. In this post, I have curated several sources for tutorials which I used…
Important names in data visualisation
It is important to discover people who are successfully creating innovative data visualisations. With a variety of platforms available to visualise data, there are an increasing amount of possibilities with how you can present your visualisations. Here are three important names in data visualisation, and why it’s important to know about them! Caroline Beavon Caroline…
#BuildTheNews: Adapting the infographic for longform with Adobe Illustrator
During Build The News I worked to visualise data for use in our longform snowfall project on the pensions crisis. Some of this data was visualised best in line charts with Datawrapper, while other statistics worked best as standalone figures. Part of my team’s initiative in our ‘Stretch‘ project was to use the snowfall platform…
5 curated inspiring magazine layout galleries
My main aim for my project in the Production Lab module is to gain valuable graphic design skills, specifically using the programme InDesign. As the learning goal of the module is to ‘fill in the gaps’ for my professional skill set, it is important that I learn to work InDesign within a magazine context. I intend…
5 inspiring infographics from Lemonly Visuals
As I begin to learn about data visualisation I decided to start with researching ‘Infographics‘. Infographics are a popular format for presenting lots of data or information in one place. Infographics make use of visual graphic design to present this information in an interesting or innovative way, using size and semiotic icons to represent trends in…
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