Art 314 Electronic Publication Design Sec 01
Associate Professor Mark Malloy
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Course Policy

Design Principles and Type Families

///////////9.13 Assignment:

Make 10 sketches for a new cover for 1 of the covers you chose. Use only type in these sketches (with none of it removed) and disregard images. Use the link above to be sure that you are clear about which design principles and type families are being used in your design sketches.
During our next class we will begin making these designs in Indesign.

///////////9.20 Assignment:

A. Make designs of type-only covers in InDesign. Create a document that is 10 pages long and attempt to create the 10 ideas that you have sketched out.

B. Make 10 sketches for the same cover, but this time using a photo. For each of these sketches, take or find a photo (either take a photo yourself or scan one from a printed source or find a high-res image from the web) that fits your layout, so that we can place images into these new designs.

///////////9.27 Assignment:

Create 10 designs (including images) in InDesign. We will look at the designs on screen and find the pages that should go forward to be refined.

///////////10.04 Assignment:

Using three different magazines as your model, create three documents that have 4 different type "samples" on them. These samples should match 4 different type treatments in the design of an article in the magazine.

Examples: headline, subhead, body copy, caption, etc.

To match these type samples as closely as possible: try to get the same typeface (at least match the family), size, leading and alignment.

Then create paragraph style sheets for all four (see pp.307-315 Real World InDesign CS5)

///////////10.06 Assignment:

Using the same three different magazine sample page documents, modify the document so as to match the major document attributes:

Trim Size--Using File/Document Set-Up

Margins, columns, gutters--Using the Layout/Margins and Columns

and creating Master Page Items: (pp. 92-101 Real World InDesign CS5) Eaxmples:page numbers, headers, footers

///////////10.13 Assignment:

3 6-PAGE LAYOUTS in magazine form using existing master pages and paragraph styles Using the same three different magazine sample page documents, modify the document so as to create a magazine article.

Start each of the 3 documents on page 2 and be sure that you are designing a "facing pages" document. Start page cab be changed under: " file/document set up"

The title of this layout will be "The Five Most Important Creative Influences," the author is you.

Use the Master Pages and Paragraph Styles that you have created that match the 3 magazines that you brought in.

Decide who your five most important creative influences are and get text and images for the subjects from the web. Use the same content for all three documents. What will differentiate the documents will be the design NOT the content.

Be sure to introduce the article with the title.

USE THE PARAGRAPH STYLES!! Invent as little as possible! This assignment is about observing how master pages and styles will speed up production speed.

These are due on screen on Wednesday 10.13.10

///////////10.18 Assignment:

QUIZ: BRING IN your Real World InDesign CS5 by David Blatner, et. al. the quiz relies on your access to this book---no sharing will be allowed. This book has been a required text since the beginning of the semester.

Choose one of your documents from 10.13 (above) and create some more advanced paragraph styles and and an object style for the placed image. Specifically:

New Paragraph Styles:These are required styles
1.without indent with a "nested style"
2.a runnning header (a header that falls within the main copy) that has the following attributes designed: space before+after, color, rule(s)
3.a "no-indent" paragraph
4.a paragraph with a drop cap

Object Styles:create at least three object style attributes
(examples below)
1.Text Wrap
2.Bounding box
3.Other Effects from the Object