Moorpark College Graphic Design

Hey there! It’s midterm, and I’m ditching. Actually, I had to make an emergency trip to Las Vegas. Like we haven’t heard that one before. I’ll let you know how that turned out next week.

In the meantime, I want you to continue working on your menu assignment using what you’ve learned about character and paragraph formatting, as well as style sheets and inline graphjics. If you get stuck, use the InDesign Bible index to find the chapters that explain style sheets.

I’d like you work in the classroom during what is normally the lecture time. That way if anyone gets stuck, or doesn’t understand something, you can help each other. Please email your menus to me directly after class so that I can evaluate your progress. Bring a printed copy to class on March 13th.

Assignment:

Recreate the Melrose Café Menu. For this part of the assignment, choose a section of the menu: appetizers, gourmet salads, chicken, pasta, etc. and recreate it. Include the pizza section. The section headers contain inline graphics, but the graphic elements you use for the menu headers can be different from the graphics used in the Melrose Cafe menu.

Objectives:

1. Input text and graphics content
2. Format text and tag with Character and Paragraph styles
3. Employ “space” after for paragraph settings
4. Use Leaders for food prices
5. Understand indents and tab alignments
6. Using Paragraph Rules

The next assignment will be a follow-up to the menu where we will work on creating a layout for the menu. This will be a tri-fold “brochure,” so begin thinking about how the menu will be presented to the customer.

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