A Condé Nast publication, bon appétit, uses color in a very intriguing manner creating a symbolic narrative in alignment with the literary narrative. The color schemes are usually a derivative of the images and illustrations that are used in the stories.… Continue Reading
Dear future class: You are about to begin your prototype publication. This is going to be a long yet rewarding journey so get ready to dive right in. You don’t have a lot of time to get this done. Even… Continue Reading
Future Students, The class you are about to take is truly what you make of it. This class is one of the very few classes in Newhouse that you get to choose a topic or subject that you particularly enjoy… Continue Reading
To the fall 2019 semester of publication design, Welcome! I hope you’re excited because this class is just as rewarding as it is challenging. To be able to hold a 20-something-page magazine at the end of the semester that is… Continue Reading
The cover: The Nation has more color on its covers than anywhere else in the magazine. The nameplate is usually red but sometimes also black, depending on the cover illustration. Although the cover uses more color, it is usually not… Continue Reading
The Nation uses a lot of illustrations and graphics and not a lot of photographs. Although they mostly use illustrations, the magazine is not visual-heavy. In fact, images take a back seat to words, with some pages containing no images… Continue Reading
The Nation uses some furniture elements to guide the reader through the magazine in a non-distracting and straightforward way. Starting at the front of the book, each issue has a section called “letters” with short blurbs from readers about previous… Continue Reading
Department/Section Front: Regularly appearing article or section with the same format every issue. Every department front has an image, the department name, a headline, and a subhead. Typically the headline and subhead are a teaser to what will come in the… Continue Reading
Typography is extremely important as a typeface helps complete the image for a magazine. The main typeface for Real Simple is ‘Sharp Grotesk.’ This typeface is sans serif and used for the nameplate and folio. It is also used for all headlines, cutlines… Continue Reading
Cover After examining several covers of The Nation, the purpose of the cover is to highlight the most important article of the issue and provide readers with an illustration to go along with it. The Nation tends towards cover that… Continue Reading