- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (28 Aug 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415290279
- ISBN-13: 978-0415290272
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.4 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 237,143 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A hugely beneficial introduction to students and professionals in print media and design, Designing for Newspapers and Magazines offers guidance on how to produce attractive publications and how to tailor them to their target audience using colour, text placement, typography and images,
Written by an experienced journalist and designer, the book details the elements of good design and provides instruction on how to get the most of computers and computer-aided design.
The book examines a broad range of local an national publications including The Sun, The Daily Mirror and Glamour magazine and explains the reasoning that underpins their design choice, including:
* how to set up a new publication
* planning an edition of a newspaper or magazine
* typography and working with text
* working with images and technical production
* designing pages and how to use colour
* design and journalism ethics
* a glossary of journalistic and design terms.
Frost shows here how a well designed publication can be a powerful platform for good journalism. This text will be invaluable in the study of design and print media.
Written by an experienced journalist and designer, the book details the elements of good design and provides instruction on how to get the most of computers and computer-aided design.
The book examines a broad range of local an national publications including The Sun, The Daily Mirror and Glamour magazine and explains the reasoning that underpins their design choice, including:
* how to set up a new publication
* planning an edition of a newspaper or magazine
* typography and working with text
* working with images and technical production
* designing pages and how to use colour
* design and journalism ethics
* a glossary of journalistic and design terms.
Frost shows here how a well designed publication can be a powerful platform for good journalism. This text will be invaluable in the study of design and print media.
About the Author
Chris Frost is head of journalism at Liverpool John Moores University. He has worked in journalism for 30 years as a reporter, sub-editor and editor. He is the author of Media Ethics and Self-Regulation and Reporting for Journalists.
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Newspapers and magazines are a potent mix of text and image designed to grab the reader's attention and hold it, making the experience of reading the news easy and enjoyable and, more importantly for some, to tempt readers to carry on shelling out a reasonable amount of precious cash to pay for it. Read the first page
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Newspapers and magazines are a potent mix of text and image designed to grab the reader's attention and hold it, making the experience of reading the news easy and enjoyable and, more importantly for some, to tempt readers to carry on shelling out a reasonable amount of precious cash to pay for it. Read the first page
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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This book should be called 'Layout For Newspapers And Magazines', since contrary to the publisher's synopsis and sassygirl's review, it is not about designing a publication from scratch. Chris Frost admits as much when he writes that the book is 'aimed at journalists working on newspapers and magazines where the house style will already have been decided'. He does give a few hints of what to consider when designing from scratch, but these take up no more than ten pages. So I was very disappointed to read a book outlining a lot of what I already knew, having worked in the magazine and newspaper industry for several years. Take, for instance, his very simplistic discussion of type, which takes you back to the very basics: what a serif is, and what x-height means. Good for the beginner, but this information can be found anywhere. Then he asks, why use one typeface and not another given there are hundreds available to the designer? (p94) Instead of answering this crucial question, one of the reasons I bought this book, he goes off into a brief discussion of decorative and unusual fonts, and then forgets the problem entirely. Interestingly, he advises the creation of condensed fonts by squeezing regular type with horizontal scaling, which even I know respected typographers abhor, because it distorts type. So although there is lots of useful advice regarding layout of house styles, this is not the book I wanted, and I will have to buy another.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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I am a graphic designer, and I recently purchased this book in order tohelp me write an essay on magazine production. I had no idea aboutmag/newspaper production, but this little gem definitely helped me tolearn lots about the media industry.
Whether you are like myself, wishing to become a mag designer, or perhapsa journalist, this book will certainly aid your understanding of theindustry and how it works. There are also plenty of examples to show youhow the headline should be designed and worded and how the general layoutcan really attract the audience to a publication. If you are planning towork on a huge publication like the Telegraph, or starting your ownpublication from scratch, you can rely on this book to tell you everythingyou need to know. This is also an excellent book (and an essential) forthe media student. Yet at the same time, it's equally as interesting andinformative to the professional. The information is clear and concise,without being patronising, a qualiity that is rare in such books.
And there's plenty of information to absorb, from the print process to thefinished article. This is certainly a worthwhile investment for anybudding media wannabe, so make sure you order your copy today! It's abargain!!!
Whether you are like myself, wishing to become a mag designer, or perhapsa journalist, this book will certainly aid your understanding of theindustry and how it works. There are also plenty of examples to show youhow the headline should be designed and worded and how the general layoutcan really attract the audience to a publication. If you are planning towork on a huge publication like the Telegraph, or starting your ownpublication from scratch, you can rely on this book to tell you everythingyou need to know. This is also an excellent book (and an essential) forthe media student. Yet at the same time, it's equally as interesting andinformative to the professional. The information is clear and concise,without being patronising, a qualiity that is rare in such books.
And there's plenty of information to absorb, from the print process to thefinished article. This is certainly a worthwhile investment for anybudding media wannabe, so make sure you order your copy today! It's abargain!!!
Format:Paperback
I have recently published a local newspaper from scratch, without previous experience. This was among the books I ordered for my research. I have to say that on the first flick through it, it appeared dated. I found little advice helpful for someone starting a free weekly. If you decide that print media, in a large organisation will feature in your career, it maybe for you.
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