Moorpark College Graphic Design

This assignment introduces the concept of the grid in page layout and design.

Students will be assigned a magazine layout and must create an exact duplicate in InDesign.

Objectives are to gain an understanding of:

1. Document Setup Dialog
2. Rulers, and translation from analog to digital
3. Ruler Guides
4. Columns and margins – specifying and changing
5. Importing text and graphics
6. Resizing graphics
7. Formatting text – character and paragraph palettes
8. Introduction to Indents and tabs
9. Basic printing

Due: Sept. 22 at the beginning of class.

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Students enrolled in section II of GRM24-Desktop Publishing/Publication Design should review the InDesign features listed here, which highlight the specific areas to be covered in this class.

Auomation and Production:

• Paragraph Styles
• Character Styles
• Object Styles
• Story Editor
• Libraries
• Layers
• Links
• Data Merge
• Scripts
• Output Preview & Preset

Colors and Printing:

• RGB, CMYK, PMS, UV, varnish
• Gradients
• Transparencies
• Layout Adjustment
• Color Settings
• Preflight
• Package

Book Features:

• Table of Contents
• Index
• Footnotes
• Impositions

Students meet individually with the instructor to arrange lecture/lab.

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Due: Sept. 25, beginning of class.

Objective: The poster is designed to “Get Out the Vote” in the upcoming 2008 Presidential Election. Poster must include images and type.

Software: Photoshop

Trim Size: 11″x17″

Color Ways: 4/0

Bleeds: Okay

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Business Card
While the business card is part of the entire stationery system (business card, letterhead, envelope), your assignment consists of the business card only. The 9/3/08 class will discuss the design process and strategies for developing each of the elements that make up the Stationery System. The corresponding reading in Green’s books is pp. 1-45.

Due Date: Monday, 9-15-08 end of class

Objective: Design a business card and prepare files for 4-color process printing

Color Ways: 4/0, 4/1, or 4/4

Finished Size: 3.5″x2″

Required Formats:

1. Press Quality PDF – One file for each side/page of your business card
2. Press Quality PDF – 8-up business card. All sides/pages in one PDF
3. Screen Resolution PDF (or jpg) – One file for each side/page of your business card
4. Screen Resolution PDF (or jpg) – 8-up business card. All sides/pages in one PDF
5. Color proof bound into your folder with your job sheet, record of communications, and notes

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The purpose of these two exercises is to give students a understanding of how raster images and their layers behave.

Making Selections – In-class exercise

Spheres – In-class exercise – due Sept. 11th by the beginning of class.

• Beginning Layers
• Marquee Selections
• Simple Gradients
• Feathering the edge of a selection

HOMEWORK:

• Review Photoshop Tools
• Reading – Class Notes – Chapter 5

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We begin the process of learning how to capture images and manipulate them in Photoshop. Discussion and hands-on exercises explore:

• Digital cameras
• Photoshop’s work environment
• Color Modes/Models
• Resolution – ppi, dpi, lpi
  
• Masks & Simple Selections
• Tools & Palettes
• Brushes
• Color Picker
• Introduction to layers
  
• Printing from Photoshop overview
• The Journal

Using techniques reviewed in this week’s class, create a self-portrait and attach it to your email attendance. You will be creating a “quick” self-portrait for each class session. By the end of the semester your will have enough images to “fill a book.” Each of these “sketches” should be quick, taking only 10-15-minutes or less. If you want to spend additional time on your sketches, you may. The sketches will serve multiple purposes throughout the semester, so it is important that you participate…it is part of your attendance grade.

1. The sketches demonstrate that you participated in classroom exercises and activities.
2. The sketches, being self-portrait in nature, and using classroom techniques, give you the opportunity to practice what you are learning.
3. The sketches help to identify your email in a unique and personal manner.
4. You will use these sketches as part of your library of images that you will use to explore future assignments.
5. Print a copy of your sketch for your journal.

ROBIN WILLIAMS ON DESIGN

ANDREW MUNDI ON DESIGN

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2008-2009 is The Year of Democracy at Moorpark College.

In this historic and ground-breaking political year, college staff, faculty and students will engage in dialogue to develop a deeper understanding of the democratic process in the United States and around the world.

Objective:
Design a poster persuading members in “your community” to exercise their right to vote in the upcoming November election. Criteria will be discussed in class and posted at a later date.

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Due Date: Wednesday, Sept. 3rd.

Format:

1. Digital file (jpg or pdf) attached to email. This part is due promptly upon completion.
2. Print and turn in with completed assignment folder.
3. A copy of the assignment sheet is to be printed and assembled into a new folder and turned in with each printed assignment.

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Here’s another useful book you can add to our list of required books. It’s under $10 and it’s got tons of great information. It’s Chuck Green’s Logos, Letterheads, & Business Cards, part of the Rockport “Design It Yourself” series. We’ll refer to this book as DIY.

We’ll be discussing the “how-to’s” of designing and laying out the business card part of a stationery system.

Reading: DIY: 1-45.

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