School clubs are where people gather in order to learn, practice, and celebrate their mutual interest in certain topics. Naturally, club members would want to assert their existence to attract new members. One way to get the attention of non-members is to release your own club magazine.

However, why would you need one? What would the contents be? Should you possess certain design skills to make one? You can find the answer below.

Why Your Club Needs a Magazine

There are many reasons to answer the question of “why would our club needs a magazine? “even if you’re not a journalistic club. First of all, a magazine can help your club gain more popularity. With it, you’re basically announcing your existence to your schoolmates. 

Second, you can talk about practically anything related to your club using the magazine. You can talk about your club activities, what topics are quite the rage in your area of interest, or who’s the most influential people of said are of interest, to name a few.

Third, it could be a tool for interacting with and attracting new people to join the club. Printed media is still a powerful marketing tool even in today’s digital society. It’s true that you can always attract new members through your social media presence. However, at the end of the day, people still need something they can hold to feel truly engaged with something. 

Templates to Try for Your Club’s Magazines

No, you don’t have to be an enlightened graphic design guru to create a beautiful and engaging magazine, especially if you’re still a student. That’s exactly why templates exist: to help amateurs and non-professionals create something. You can use hundreds—or even thousands—of layout templates, like the ones we featured below.

Dish Food

A cooking club might not be the most popular club in school, but that’s exactly why you guys need this template. Though technically not a magazine, you can still create a stunning cookbook with this template to showcase the mouthwatering recipes from the members.

You can edit the 20-pages layout using Adobe InDesign. All the elements of the template are customizable, so you can let your creativity run wild. With this easy-to-use template, you and your club are just one step away from releasing your own cookbook.

Travel World Magazine

Do you know what kind of publication is best suited for a photography club? If your answer is an exhibition, well, you’re not wrong. However, a further-reaching way of showcasing the work of the members is selling a photobook. This way, the club can show off the member’s skills and raise funds for future club activities.

This layout template is a perfect fit for this occasion. Fully customizable using Adobe InDesign, you can simply insert the photo into the placeholders. You can also edit the text and insert a short paragraph or two about the object, the photographer, or the story about the captured moment.

Plants Magazine

The name suggests that the default color scheme used in the template is supposed to give a sense of tranquility. If you want to promote your club in such a manner, then this layout is up for the task. Readers will unconsciously associate your club with being pretty relaxed yet passionate about your area of interest.

Like other templates mentioned in this article, you can fully customize the layout in Adobe InDesign to suit your club’s preference. Editing the text? Easy-peasy. Inserting images? As smooth as butter. Resolution? Crisp-like chips.

Lifestyle Magazine

Who said different clubs should publish different magazines? Why not work together to publish one single book that features different clubs at once? For example, clubs like painting, music, and crafting can work with literature or journalistic clubs to create one publication.

The collaborating clubs can provide the contents, and then the journalistic club can compile them in a single publication using this template in Adobe InDesign. They can easily customize the layout so that each and every club in this collaboration is showcased equally.

Afterword

To this day, publishing printed media remains one of the most effective ways to promote something, including a school club. The next time someone says designing and publishing a magazine to showcase your club activities is too much of a hassle, prove them wrong by using one of the featured templates.