The purpose of this class is to teach design students the tools necessary to typeset and produce professional quality printed materials using primarily Adobe InDesign. This course is paired with Typography 1 and should provide you with the technical expertise to complete all assignments.
Follow along with the lecture/demonstration for exposure to functions, capabilities, and best practices concerning InDesign and Illustrator.
Opportunities to receive specific guidance regarding tools and techniques for Typography 1 assignments.
Out of class practice incorporating learned tools into the design process. We'll have 3 main projects that you'll complete throughout the semester that will make up the majority of your grade.
Your grade in this class will be determined your attendance record, and completion of projects. For all assignments, you will submit your working .indd file (or other file) via Dropbox File Requests. The link for each assignment submission can be found on this web page during the week leading up to its due date. Late projects without a medical excuse will automatically be dropped one-half letter grade.
You'll have an opportunity to resubmit assignments for a better grade. The highest grade you can get on a resubmission is a 95%. Resubmissions are due before class on December 11, 2018.
I am BUSY. Please email me when you need help and I'll do my best to answer as quickly as possible. I'm more likely to answer my non-Northeastern email listed on this website. If you need more one-on-one help, I'm happy to stay after class for as long as necessary, or to schedule time without you one evening to help you!
Introduction, go over the syllabus.
Page layouts & making grids. Introducing your first project.
Master pages. Creating them, applying them, facing pages, etc.
Colors and styles. Going over modes of color, when they're used, and how to create them. Introduction to Project 2.
Working class for Project 2.
Exporting and hyperlinks.
Illustrator. Editing text in it, exporting for print. Differences between programs and handy shortcuts.
Composite documents and working class. Use this time to ask me questions about your main typography class.
Intro to project 3.
In class critique.
No class 🦃
TBD depending on availability of Union Press.
Using tabs, voting on Project 3.
Working class. Use this time before your finals!