Learn how to design a professional magazine spread in Adobe InDesign from scratch. I walk through a two-page layout for a fictional magazine called Science Journal, with the feature article “Science in History: Nikola Tesla”, covering the text tools, image placement and the layout techniques every designer should know.
What you’ll learn
- Setting up parent (master) pages for headers, footers and automatic page numbers
- Working with text frames and typography for a clean editorial look
- Using the Object Transformation options to place elements precisely
- Wrapping text around images
- Adding lines, captions and visual hierarchy
Project files
The tutorial suits beginner and intermediate designers who want to practise real-world magazine layout and improve their InDesign workflow.