Workshop Week: Indesign

     In this workshop we were shown some of the basic properties of Indesign, and also how to use grids effectively when using images and text. I found the workshop quite useful and interesting as I have never used Indesign before. The first exercise we did was create a mood board using provided images of the outdoors. We then had to format some text and learnt about leading, kerning and tracking. These skills were then used in the afternoon when we were introduced to the brief which was to create a 4 page magazine spread for the magazine 'Kinfolk', formatting provided images and text linked to the outdoors. We had to create a mood board of design layouts based around a key word and that would fit the look of the magazine and it's target audience. My keyword was 'simplicity' and here is the mood board that I created. 

Next, taking inspiration from our mood boards we drew thumbnails to plan out our page designs. Here are some pages that I designed using images and text provided: