From the course: Magazine Design: Getting Started
Small features - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: Magazine Design: Getting Started
Small features
- The front of the book is excellent for small and even tiny features. Bits of news, trivia, numbers, quotes, things like that. Forbes' leaderboard section is a good example. Dozens of interesting bits on a variety of topics. Beautifully designed, lots of visual detail and nuance that makes this section engaging to read and crystal clear. Small features can be simpler. Typical will be a one or two page photo accompanied by a very short story, and sometimes just a caption. National Geographic is famous for these. Its visions section is page after page of beautiful photos that are simply captioned. You could have one page like this, or many. Sea Nat's point of view section is a little different. The black and white photo is noosier. The caption is longer and includes a headline, text, a web link, and a photo byline. And back in Nat Geo, its further feature is literally an entire section on a single page. The name of the section, its descriptive deck head, the article headline, the byline, the story in text, an illustrated diagram, a web link, and the photo byline, all in the typographic styles of the magazine. More informal would be a page of tidbits. A good example is Civil War Monitor Magazine's voices page, which features pertinent quotations about a single topic that changes issue to issue.
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