May 22


Matt Willey recently recorded his decision-making on a feature design for the Royal Academy magazine. Anyone who’s designed a magazine will recognise the process — a very useful insight into how page designs get arrived at.

25 Responses to “Page design”

  1. ronareu44 Says:

    @tekki If I made a video on how to make the best chocolate
    chip cookies and all you saw was mixing stuff together
    with just some music playing,would that do it for you?

  2. tekki Says:

    @ronareu44 I think the music is brilliant with the video

  3. lastinlineband1 Says:

    This is a wonderful video! Thanks for posting it. I used InDesign to do some page layout for some books. I’d like to post that video as a response. Thank-you.

  4. part2themovie Says:

    @markDMH1 as they say in programming the user aka loser is the bane of and reason for its existence, in short, stfu. if you’ve ever been in a managerial position you should know how insignificant process is, results are all that matter. let your colleagues or competition in the industry judge your work flow. Or in short(ER) you swing the key the car starts, and you dont give a twat what makes engines work. so plz, gfx designers stop bellyaching this stuff is easy

  5. markDMH1 Says:

    nice :)

    this is my one pet peeve about being a gfx designer, the client never sees the process only the final product. they never see the endless layout changes 2 get something that looks and flows well. pfff fucking clients.

    great vid tho.

  6. ronareu44 Says:

    Usefull to who? Suggestion; Lose music,
    or at least make it low vol…get mike and
    describe some of decision making ideas
    that when into it.Other wise, it’s just an
    ego trip,Lastly, respond to comments.

  7. SebRoll Says:

    Two things jump to my mind watching this:

    1- The great value of knowing the tools of your craft thoroughly.

    2- Designing form and content at the same time can be counterproductive. (Coming from my web design background)

    Thanks for posting this: it’s always a pleasure to see a skilled craftsman at work.

  8. silentdisturbance Says:

    Brilliant

  9. emptyel Says:

    Anyone know the typeface used for the titles ?

  10. MartaError Says:

    Adebe InDesign

  11. bedroomhijinks Says:

    what program was he using?

  12. deanomaddog Says:

    Absolutely brilliant. If okay, can I put up on my website? Will how client’s how it is really done? For once they should be able to appreciate we don’t ‘just’ place text and images et voilá! How long did it take you to produce the spread and what did you use to capture the time lapse? A perfect weill presented spread.

  13. Lolalai Says:

    Quite frankly, designing layout for a rag can be trying but doesn’t go near devising and designing a bridge, operating on a human being or applying the law…Don’t you think? XD

  14. iEV0 Says:

    My feelings exactly! It’s nice to know that I am not the only “crazy” one.

  15. wcarlzon Says:

    Si tal cual te hace no sentir solo! :) feliz!

  16. deniseinparsons Says:

    I love it that the title changes like 1.788.567 times :)

  17. brentcraigpeters Says:

    MORE!!!
    MAKE MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS!!

    Makes feel like I’m not alone.

  18. ddelgiu Says:

    the song is “Una lacrima sul viso” by Bobby Solo, a famous italian songer from 70s.

  19. ozonda Says:

    what music is this?

  20. ooiuj11 Says:

    FUCK MAN I know. But hey, do u want to watch TV on ur PC

    You’ll get all the SKY CHANNELS there is

    AND from any country IN THE WORLD, on your pc screen!!!!

    Go to this website…

    frexis.*com/PCTV#18.html

    (DELETE the *)

    check it out…………….its cool, i’ve got it myself.

  21. ooiui10 Says:

    FUCK MAN I know. But hey, do u want to watch TV on ur PC

    You’ll get all the SKY CHANNELS there is

    AND from any country IN THE WORLD, on your pc screen!!!!

    Go to this website…

    frexis.*com/PCTV#18.html

    (DELETE the *)

    check it out…………….its cool, i’ve got it myself.

  22. lvpdesign Says:

    Looks like InDesign

  23. nightstraveler Says:

    What’s the software?

  24. lapdogshuffle Says:

    Final headline is in the very last frame – “LIGHT WORK”

  25. jayejoseph Says:

    It shows how we have to react to the powers that be changing their minds 27 times a day during production as well.

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