Editorial & Layout Design

Editorial design is the discipline of making many pages read as one coherent object - a magazine, a book, an annual report - where consistency, rhythm, and flow matter more than any single beautiful page. This course teaches the working multi-page pipeline used by real publication designers: setting up a document with correct margins, columns, gutters, and a baseline grid; building master pages, running heads, and automatic page numbers so structure repeats without manual labor; defining paragraph and character styles so a 64-page document restyles in seconds; setting body type at a comfortable measure and leading; and designing the pacing of a feature so the reader is pulled through. By the end you will have one complete multi-page layout - a short magazine feature or report section - built on a proper grid with master pages and style sheets, exported as a print-ready, correctly imposed PDF.