Campus CLOSED Wednesday, 9-23-09
Posted on September 23rd, 2009
Campus is closed today due to the Moorpark fire, apparently caused by an overabundance of bullshit that went up in smoke.
Campus is closed today due to the Moorpark fire, apparently caused by an overabundance of bullshit that went up in smoke.
Using the step and repeat process, prepare your business card to print 8-up for offset printing on an 8-1/2″x11″ sheet.
Due: 9-14-09
Publication Design Workbook, A Real-World Design Guide, by Timothy Samara
Pages 34-59
Topic Areas Covered:
Reading
Getting it Printed, by Eric Kenly and Mark Beach
Pages 22-43 – Type and Graphics
Publication Design, by Roy Paul Nelson
Pages 29-104
Tonight will will continue our study of Photoshop, learning how to combine and manipulate images. The Photoshop illustration that you create for your Halloween party invitation should be comprised of a elements from a minimum of eight different images. Plus, you will need to add display text (a headline) in Photoshop. The remaining text will be created in InDesign and we will be working on this project over the next several weeks until it is due on October 8.
In next week’s class, we will begin our discussion of scanning and retouching images. In preparation for this lesson, the this link provides the reading homework and files you can download for practice.
The step and repeat function in InDesign comes in handy for a number of tasks, and does for prep-press what printers used to do with a process camera. When it comes to preparing files for printing, the set up depends on the type of press the job is printed on. Today, there are a number of reproduction processes that can be used to print a business card, which I’ll cite as an example, since that’s the project we’re currently working on. When choosing a printing process, one must consider the following:
We’ll discuss file preparation as it relates to the above considerations and examine how the step-and-repeat feature plays a vital role in cutting production time and costs.
Tonight we will review the Photoshop environment, tool box, and layers while working on the sphere exercise, which you will use as a basis for a conceptual illustration that is then developed into an invitation to a Halloween Party. The entire project requires a workflow that includes Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat. This project will be developed during class and labs over the course of the next several weeks.
We’ll also review iPhoto and Photo booth and discuss how they can be handy tools for creative work.
The purpose of these two exercises is to give students a understanding of how raster images and their layers behave.
Why Design Wise words from design authorities, reading assignments, et al.
Making Selections – In-class exercise
Spheres – In-class exercise – due sept. 10 by the beginning of class.
HOMEWORK:
Each week you need to attach a unique image to the email with your attendance report. Click for a full explanation.
GR M24
Design It Yourself, Logos, Letterheads, & Business Cards. The Non-Designer’s Step-By-Step Guide, by Chuck Green
pages 42-43
Next week’s objectives (08-24-09)
EXERCISE:
Business Card – follow this tutorial to practice some of the tools used to set up a business card. In Monday’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 inch x 2 inch page size with a .125 inch bleed.
Here are a couple of must-see videos from “the past.” Enjoy.
