Moorpark College Graphic Design

Bring in your final project both electronic files and printouts of your progress. We will do a group critique tonight, with the hopes that you go home with new motivation and lots of ideas!

Also, bring all of your publication design and InDesign questions, and we’ll review areas of concern.

Next week is our final class meeting before finals…our final session is May 9th from 6-8pm. The two hours will consist of a critique and discussion of each of the final projects.

This is what you’ll need to turn in at 6pm May 9th:

• CD – include InDesign “PACKAGE”
•  a package consists of the InDesign file, a folder containing all of the linked images, all of the fonts in the publication, and printers instructions…the package is a product of InDesign’s “Package” feature found under the File Menu
• CD – include Print Resolution PDF
• Two copies of the printed proof

The printed proof should be the equivalent of a tight comp. It should look as close to the final, printed piece as is physically possible. This is the last thing a client sees, unless they pay for another type of proof. It should feature any special paper and binding type that you have chosen.

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Tonight will consist of a review and fire drill on the following:

• 3 techniques for creating lines
• Creating color block “headings” using paragraph rules
• Using the color palette to create custom colors, simplify and pre-flight for printing
• Using the pen tool to create a map

You will be recreating a flyer, so if you see this, bring your rulers to class. The lecture will review each aspect of InDesign listed above. Afterwards, you will have the remainder of class to complete the flyer and print. Email a jpg of your finished flyer, as well as an InDesign File (however far you get tonight).

I will also be checking the status of your final projects. Please bring whatever files and printouts necessary in order for us to have a discussion.

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Tonight we will address and discuss the following issues:

• Color Models – RGB, CMYK, Pantone
• Printing Processes
• Paper weights and finishes
• Die cuts, embossing, foil stamping
• Metallic Inks, Aquaeous Coatings, Varnish, UV

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Tonight we will work on refining our dummies and page layouts.

We’ll have a review of master pages and special characters for page numbering and jump lines.

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You can spend class time working in the lab. Continue working on your menus and send a pdf of your progress.

As we move forward and begin to concentrate on the final project, I’ll expect weekly reports demonstrating your progress towards the completed publication.

If you haven’t already turned in a description of your final project, be sure to email it tonight.

Tonight’s class is the last class before spring break. So we won’t meet again until March 27. That will give you two weeks to complete tonight’s assignments. I want you to make dummies for your publication. The dummy publication should be a physical representation of the final product. It doesn’t have to be the same size as the final publication, but it should be the same proportions and should have the same number of pages, including covers. In creating your dummy, carefully consider the binding, folds, and how you print your publication. They are determining factors on how your pages impose, and how you layout your InDesign pages.
READINGS:
Publication Design, Roy Nelson: read the section that applies to you. Magazine, Newletter, Book, etc. These chapter will help you understand the contextual and visual hierarchy of each type of publication. The publication should be a minimum of 12 pages, not including covers (front, back, and inside front and back).

InDesign Bible: Read pages 199-212, This section explains master pages and why you need them. To create automatic page numbering, reference p. 572.

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Hello Graphic Arts People!

I have recieved an announcement for non-paid and paid interships at the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. I work with Ranger Sheila (pronounce SHY-la) Braden with biology interns and their experience is invaulable.

If you have some special students please refer them to Sheila Braden. They can also download an application online (if they google NPS Santa Monica Mountians).

Potential interns can contact Audry Furrel for college credit.

Please spread the word.

Thank you!

Kath Courtney

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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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We continue our study:

• indents and tabs
• hanging indents
• special characters
• paragraph rules
• inline graphics
• typography

…with the promised introduction of style sheets.

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Tonight’s lecture will review text flow and formatting in InDesign, with an emphasis on indents and tabs, tables, paragraph formatting and a brief introduction to styles. The corresponding material can be found in Publication Design Workbook, pages 34-53, and in the Bible, Part IV – Chapters 14-21.

Tonight is the last night to work in the lab on your magazine layout. The completed layouts are due at the beginning of next week’s class, on Feb. 28. You can send your pdf file any time prior to the beginning of class the 28th. Bring your prints to class.

The page layout and the typography should match the original as closely as possible. That means that you’ll need to key-in the type, if you haven’t already done so, in order to match the type size, leading, line lengths, etc.

Make sure to keep everything pertaining to the job/assignment in your folder, including a job sheet listing the objectives and specs of the job, a printed xerox copy of the original, or the original layout. Each working copy that you print should be included in the folder, along with any notes you make to yourself about changes that need to be made along the way. Also, include your final printed layout. When you turn in your job/assignment, your folder must come with it (we made an exception with the business card, because the envelope and letterhead were part of the assignment. I want to see your folders on those assignments, as well. The ability to check your folders each week, gives me the greatest opportunity to analyze the progression of your work and plus, it gives me a tangible way to give you feedback.

For now, the easiest way to create the job/assignment sheet is to copy the post directly from the internet. Paste it into an InDesign File, and follow the workflow i.e. Export to Acrobat>Print. In a couple of weeks, one of your assignments will be to create a form for the job/assignment sheet. Watch for a complete Job Description in a future post.

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Tonight everyone should have completed the business card part of the stationery assignment. If you haven’t turned the 1-up and 8-up business cards in electronically, do it now. I will be reviewing each and giving you feedback so that you can make it presentation-ready.

Last week students chose a magazine layout to duplicate. Using nothing more than a ruler, the task is to duplicate the magazine layout as closely as possible.

To help students complete the task, lecture topic includes these lecture topics:

• text flow
• text formatting
• publication hierarchy/structure
• introduction to the grid system

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