I’ve been seeing this style in a few magazines of late, I think its some kind of digital equivalent of a dymo tape label.
I think it gives layouts a kind of digitally scrapbook look and feel
Below are steps to make this effect in InDesign plus a variation on the theme
The design of these flyers goes against all design principals. Absurd amounts of fonts per page, center justified text, questionable illustrations, filling the pages entirely with text etc… But that is what makes them AMAZING! They are so much of a time and place and truly represent the energy and fun of these parties. The design style is also indicative of the technology available at the time (much like punk rock flyers from the same era)
Some old signs with hand made lettering or stylish retro fonts from various trips and from Philly.
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This tutorial produces a two-page spread that incorporates paragraph styles, character styles as well as a pull quote. Its kind of long but stick with it. As an added benefit, the content of the spread are job interview tips.
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This tutorial will teach you how make a double helix using Illustrator, it’s another great example of using the pathfinder.
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Continuing on our theme of everything is customizable and therefore should be customized we’re going to take a look at some fancy modifications to text especially in regards to headlines for magazine articles. Now, its not to say that everything needs to be tweaked or adjusted, but it is important to pay attention to all aspects of your design; remember, we’re trying to do all of our work with intention. For this tutorial we’ll look at three ways of customizing headline text: first we’ll look at kerning, then we’ll look at applying a gradient to text and finally we’ll use an image to fill text. We’ll play with special effects in a separate tutorial.
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So my friend Mike writes me:
O Captain Illustrator, I do beseech you to solve for me a symbol set conundrum:
I have a symbol set, and I would like to break the “set”, so that it is a bunch of individual symbol instances. What I have come up with, which doesn’t seem right, is to first break the link to the symbol, and then ungroup (“ungroup” is not available as long as we’re talking about a symbol set). Is there a way to do this?
Go ahead, make my day. (Night, actually.)
-mk
The answer is a resounding NO, but we might as well use this as an opportunity to learn about Symbols.
This is a really great tutorial to learn how to use the PATHFINDER tool in Illustrator.
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For this tutorial we will replicate a simple two-page spread from Vogue
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I believe that Adobe InDesign makes you a better designer. Part of it is that from the outset it looks very simple and not too overwhelming. Another reason is that you can take the work that you’ve made in other programs (Photoshop, Illustrator, Word) and spread them out on a virtual page and begin moving them around without destroying the content. Another reason is the use of the grid, even without pages being too architectural or structured, the grid helps organize content in a 2-Dimensional picture plane, it makes the design rational and intentional (even if the intention is to look chaotic and scattered)
If you are not already using Adobe InDesign (or Quark Xpress for that matter) then I highly recommend learning how to use it – trust me, it will make you a better designer.