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After the Storm (2018)

Hi there!

I got my start in formatting doing the layout of my college newspaper because they were in need of someone to do it and I wanted to learn. Ended up getting instructions from a graphic designer the sports division of the school got hired and started there.

I would personally recommend using InDesign because it’s an adobe program made for doing things like this (but as you know Adobe loves squeezing people for cash and unless you actually would use the other programs in the suite i would not recommend shelling out all that cash for 1 program).Alternatively there is also Canva , which is like an online version of InDesign where you can create similar things, but i’ve never been able to use it correctly sadly :/ but I’m pretty sure there are a buncha tutorials on how it works.

A lot of it is just trial an error to see what works what does not. What i find really helps me is to keep in mind to keep each page (or spread) balanced. Just like in regular art, composition is important as well and being able to keep things flowing so that readers drag their eyes all across the page is part of doing good formatting. Also depending on the project being able to create a solid palette of colours to fit the theme also helps. 

What I find also helpful is to pick 2 fonts and sticking to them for the whole zine/project because adding multiple fonts just makes things messy and confusing. If you need to differentiate text use italics or bold (and even there create a system so there is consistency within the whole project).

And cornily enough have fun. It really just comes down to arranging text and images in a cool way tbh so that each element can complement each other.

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