Moorpark College Graphic Design

Wednesday, the 7th of November is the day you are supposed to commit to your “final” publication. Each student should sketch thumbnails of each of the pages in the publication. We’ll review and you may refine your “dummies” in class. Your final project should contain a minimum of twelve pages. Create a log for your pub. The log is a list of the content, broken down by category: photos, graphics, text/story, and each element in your pubc. During class we will discuss layout and design, text formatting, style sheets, a style manual, and we will discuss deadlines for content gathering, design, and production of your project.

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Simply put, Master Pages take much of the labor out of creating InDesign pages because Master Pages can house all of your repeating elements. Master Pages also help you maintain design continuity from page to page. Master elements can include page numbers, folios, empty frames, text, graphics and guides. Creating text and graphics on a Master Page is identical to creating them on any other page of the publication, with the exception that once positioned on a Master Page, master elements within the body of the document are locked in position so that you cannot accidentally move them.

Let’s take page numbering, for example. In order for a multiple page publication to look right, page numbering must be positioned in precisely the same place on every page. When thumbing through pages, numbers are likely to appear to “bounce around” if they are set in position individually, because their position could easily vary by a point or two in any direction. By ignoring the master page feature, you’d have to set and format all of the numbers manually, leaving plenty of room for errors and a sloppy looking publication.

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We continue our discussion of Paragraph and Character styles. Tabs and Paragraph rules are discussed and students will be given an exercise that relies heavily on: The use of a ruler, unit conversions, Tabs, paragraph rules, paragraph styles and character styles. You will be given a copy of the flyer shown here. You will use the rulers supplied and class time to reproduce the flyer.

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Continuing our discussion of text formatting, we learn how to use style sheets.

• Paragraph Styles
• Character Styles
• Based on Styles
• Next Style

Link to the menu exercise which was originally published in FatBits, a Macintosh user’s group newletter. It was written in the 1990’s for PageMaker’s style sheets and I recently updated it for InDesign.

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If you’ve ever had to match a font with only a few words or even letters to go by, Identifont may save hours of research time. Identifont analyzes the anatomical features of the characters at hand. Enter the characters that match your sample text, and answer a series of questions to narrow the field. Once the requisite questions are answered, Identifont presents the likely candidate(s) from among the thousands of possibilities.

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Reading – Typography 2

Introduction to Publication Design

Text Formatting Using Style Sheets. Continuing our discussion of text formatting, we will learn how to use style sheets.

Flowing Text

Readings from Roy Nelson’s “Publication Design” – Choose the readings that will help you with your final project.

Chapter 6 – Magazine Formula and Format

Chapter 7 – The Magazine Cover

Chapter 8 – Magazine – Inside Pages

Chapter 9 – Newspaper Design

Chapter 10 – Book Design

Chapter 11 – Miscellaneous Publications

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Layout – 1

Layout – 2

Topics:

• Margin Guides
• Column Guides
• Rulers
• Measuring
• Layers
• Stacking Order
• Text Frames
• Line Tool
• Basic Text Formatting

Step-by-Step Instructions for duplicating an existing page layout – “Wired”

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Please bear with me as I experiment with new ways of presenting our class postings. I’m learning about blogging, slowly but surely! Look for your class posts in the category section of this blog. Rather than posting notes for each class session on their respective pages, you’ll now find current posting in categories.

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There has been some confusion about how I expect students to submit the postcard assignments, due tomorrow, Sept. 24. I’d like to see them printed on an 8-1/2×11 sheet with crops, showing the bleeds. Print front and back centered on separate sheets. Tack onto a presentation board with low tack so we can stand them on the crit rail for review. You can remove the papers later and hang onto the board for another presentation.

After a short critique, we will continue with a short demo and review of text flow.

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