Downloadables are an exclusive benefit for CreativePro members! (Not a member yet? Join us and get $10 off with the discount code: DOWNLOAD)
Few examples of brevity are better than a magazine’s tables of contents, rolling a publication’s voice, typography, graphics, colors and other elements into a compact menu of titles and micro-“trailers” that convey a lot in tiny spaces. Wired’s contents page is a party mix of numerals, illustrations, lists, bars and visual sprites—visual techniques that can be applied to all kinds of small-space projects. This 11-page article from issue 48 of Before&After Magazine brings you back to a classic Wired magazine table of contents to give you a toy box of visual techniques that you can use on all kinds of projects.
Every image has an expressive core. To reveal it, big graphics are not simply shrunk but reconfigured by masking, re-cropping, rearranging, and so on.
© John McWade/Before&After Magazine, courtesy of Gaye Anne McWade.
Commenting is easier and faster when you're logged in!
Recommended for you
GREP of the Month: Horizontal and Vertical Spaces
Erica Gamet offers some easy to remember codes you can use to quickly select any...
Top 10 Terrible Type Transgressions
To err is human, but to commit these typographic sins is anything but divine.
InFocus: Autumn 2022
A roundup of tools, fonts, add-ons, assets, and other InDesign-centric goodies.