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Magazine Design That Works: Secrets for Successful Magazine Design (That Works Series)
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Manufacturer: Rockport Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 760
EAN: 9781564967589
ISBN: 1564967581
Label: Rockport Publishers
Manufacturer: Rockport Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: 2001-07-01
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Studio: Rockport Publishers
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Editorial Reviews:
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Magazine Design that Works focuses on 20 different magazines and what makes them work graphically, and how their look was conceived, designed, and executed. The projects featured range in style and scope, and examine the work of the top designers in the business from all around the world. Providing a virtual 'blueprint' for each project, comparisons of rough draft and final drafts illustrate the process, and the development of familiar magazines are traced over their lifespan.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Nice imagery, nice thoughts, no technical info
Comment: Briefly looking through this book you can quickly see that it is not a technical design book.
It does a very nice job at praising various popular magazines, and it does highlight fundamental design practices within magazine design.
It is a good overview book. It is also a good book to see many images of successful magazines without having to hunt down various magazines.
However, the problem is the book does not going into the technical process of magazine layout. Magazine layout IS a very technical process that most books don't explain. There is much about the grid - it is extremely important and very under estimated. It is also more simple than most people would think. There is also much about magazine layout and structure this book will not cover. Also about the whole process, from layout to print. There are a MILLION questions and problems that pop-up while designing a magazine. Many considerations and variables that vary. This book does not bring up any of those.
Can you design a magazine after reading this book? No.
Can you evaluate and understand magazines better after reading this book? Yes.
Can you get a feeling for what magazine design is about after reading this book? Yes.
Can you get some great ideas out of this book? Yes. ...you can also get them by looking through quality magazines.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent book
Comment: Very helpful in what's "hot" in magazine design. Covers differnt genres in mag. design. Extensive reasearch and helps generate different design ideas. Only complaint: Took 2 long to recieve. From my order date, it took over a month.
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Summary: Very inspiring
Comment: I think a person's appreciation of this book depends on their particular field and learning style. I work as a graphic designer for a number of different hobby magazines, and my learning style is that of a sponge - I see something, I soak it up. This book was PERFECT for me. I like to page through it, soak up the ideas, immerse myself in these various styles of good design before embarking on my own projects. I have a number of design collections, but this is the best one I've seen that's magazine specific. I also found the articles interesting and to the point, but they are more of a supplement to the designs.
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Summary: pretty pictures, little info
Comment: I'm just launching a new magazine, so I have alot to learn. I have read some terrific books; this is not one of them. Basically the pictures are nice, but I honestly cannot think of one thing I learned from this book.
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Summary: Inspirational rather than informative
Comment: I found this book to be a good place to look for inspiration and overall themes. It doesn't get too much into the nitty-gritty, hard-working pages of ads mixed with content, but it does talk about process and consistency of voice. The author lets several editors explain the design choices they made when faced with title relaunches and updates, and how those choices reinforced the type, photography, writing style, and illustrations used. There are rationale breakdowns of section headers, feature articles, grids, typography, photographic styles, etc, for several well-maintained and respected magazines.
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