Moorpark College Graphic Design

This week’s objectives

• Understand the InDesign Workspace
• Create a new, custom sized document
• Basic text tool, text and picture frames
• Basic typesetting and formatting
• Place images
• Size and crop images

EXERCISE:

Business Card – follow this tutorial to practice some of the tools used to set up a business card. In Wednesday’s class we will review process and techniques for layout and production of the business card using your original material. There are no restrictions on subject matter or content for the business card, so in this case when we refer to business card, we are specifically speaking of a 3.5″x2″ page size with a .125″ bleed.

Reading

ID Bible (Gruman) – pp. 1-80

Publication Design (Nelson) – pp. 1-49

Here are a couple of must-see videos from “the past.” Enjoy.

Shopping from home in 1999

Apple’s Knowledge Navigator

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