Instructor: Angela Riechers, Art Director

Duration: 50:24 minutes

Added November 2008

Angela Riechers, design lecturer and former art director of Harper's Magazine as well as other major publications, guides you through the process of creating the "design voice" of a brand-new publication from start to finish. Working within Adobe InDesign, she demonstrates how typeface, layout, color palette, photographs/illustrations, and other visual elements can be fused into a multilayered yet organic sensibility. She also reveals her personal post-design protocol, including spot-checking as well as preparing files for printing and/or uploading.

About Angela Riechers

Angela Riechers is an art director specializing in magazine launches and redesigns, with an ongoing interest in book, logo and identity design. From 1995 to 2002 she was art director of Harper's Magazine and most recently the art director of Home Magazine. Angela has contributed to More, O at Home, Domino, The New York Times T Magazine, Hollywood Life, People, and custom publishing products for Hearst and G+J. She teaches and lectures on design at CCNY and SVA. Her work has been recognized by the Society of Publication Designers and the Art Director's Club and was featured in the The Speck Report: A Curious Collection of Uncommon Things. Angela is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design.