Magazine Design That Works: Secrets for Successful Magazine Design

By Stacey King

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564967581
• ISBN13: 9781564967589
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Rockport Pub
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Very inspiring

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.

Inspirational rather than informative

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.