July 27, 2009
Graphics Tech
Creating National Geographic Magazine in Adobe InDesign
File this under "curiosity" (I have absolutely no connection with any of the players here). I happened on this case study and thought it was of enough interest to share (I know many pageplane.com and ideabook.com readers use InDesign--as I do). I found it interesting to learn a little about how a publication that has over 120 people working on it is put together using a version of InDesign that operates within a larger, more complex framework--in this case a publishing platform called K4.
The National Geographic case study (1.5MB PDF)...
A screen shot of the software interface within InDesign...
The general workflow (1.7MB PDF)...
Managing Editor Inc. is the exclusive distributor of K4 in the Americas...
German-based vjoon GmbH is the developer of the K4 Publishing System...

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