Agenda

Homework Due

• Finalized feature article in InDesign – be prepared to present in class
• Bring in copy and images for your one page article. Save in a folder with your name into: ‘Week13-Articles’ dropbox folder.
• Watch: Digital Publishing – Design Layouts, including Interactivity (see Week 10)

Lecture – Designing one page interactive article for iPad Magazine

• Setting up a grid
• Pull quotes
• Setting type properly – using the baseline grid
• Breaking paragraphs

Examples

• Real Simple
• National Geographic – Big Cats Initiative
• The Nation

In-Class Critique

• Grace Gallery Feature Articles

Lesson

• Looking at Overlays in InDesign
• Download lesson file here: Week13-Lesson

Presentations

• Roger Black
• Adrian Frutiger
• Carol Twombly
• Neville Brody
• David Carson

Homework
In InDesign Design:

• Create Cover Layout
• Edits to your feature article
• First Draft of Interactive One Page article

Reminder – For those of you who I’ve been in contact with – I must receive your revised feature article ASAP!

• Aliver Canari
• Alberto Bernal
  
• Jeremy Kao
• Priscilla Rios

Please submit to the Dropbox folder by 12PM tomorrow (Monday 11/30). ABSOLUTE DEADLINE!! Double check to make sure your work is in there. If in doubt email me to make sure I have received.

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Hello – since we don’t meet next week, I am sending you a special update.

IMPORTANT – PLEASE READ:

I want to emphasize that I need everyone’s Feature Article by:
END OF DAY this coming Monday 11/23/15

The Grace Gallery show is coming up and work needs to be submitted before we meet again. I would like to submit your Feature Article for the show.

Please ‘Package’ your ‘Feature Article in InDesign and send to me via dropbox:

1. Open your Feature Article in InDesign and go to the menu ‘File/Package.’ This will enable the program to collect all the images, and fonts you used for you article in addition to the actual InDesign file and save into one folder.
2. Make sure your name is on this packaged folder, zip the folder and upload it to the dropbox folder ‘Week12-FeatureArticle’
3. Here is an online tutorial about how to package a file in InDesign:
   https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/how-to/indesign-package-files-for-handoff.html
4. If you have any questions email me: mhitchings@citytech.cuny.edu
5. If you want to meet let me know – we can schedule to meet during my office hours.

Thank you!!

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Agenda

Homework Due

• Finalize design of feature article in InDesign – be prepared to present in class – include one interactive feature:
  1. Slideshow
  2. Pinch and zoom
• Bring in second and third article for your magazine. Save in a folder with your name into: ‘Week12-Articles’ dropbox folder.
• Watch: Digital Publishing – Design Layouts, including Interactivity (see Week 10)

In-Class Critique

• Create your own Adobe Cloud Account
• Create a Folio and post your feature article within
• Present your feature article to class

Presentations

• Roger Black
• Adrian Frutiger
• Carol Twombly
• Neville Brody
• David Carson

Homework
In InDesign Design:

• Create Cover Layout
• Edits to your feature article

Agenda

Homework Due

• Finalize design of feature article in InDesign – be prepared to present in class .
• Bring in second article – a collection of 8-10 facts. For example if your subject is food, perhaps you would find 8-10 seasonal, local vegetables to feature. An image for each with a related fact.
• Post any requests you have for iPad Magazine to this blog (Week 10) and I will pass them on to the department.
• Watch: Digital Publishing – Design Layouts, including Interactivity (see Week 10)

Lesson

InDesign

• Building A Folio
• Interactivity: Overlays

In-Class Presentation

• Present your feature article to class

Presentations

• Massimo Vignelli
• Paul Renner
• David Berlow
• Roger Black
• Adrian Frutiger
• Carol Twombly
• Neville Brody
• David Carson

Lab
In total your publication should include the following articles:

• Cover
• Table of Content
• Main Interactive Content:
  1. Feature Article
  2. One-page Article – showcasing 8-10 facts
  3. Interview

Homework
In InDesign Design:

• Edits to feature article based on class feed back
• Add interactivity (one of the following):
  1. Slideshow
  2. Pinch and zoom

Agenda

Homework DUE

• Watch: Adobe DPS: Create your first folio
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XbbVuQDJ6Y
• Submit printed Urban Legend booklet – I will collect printed (does not need to be bound)
• In class presentations
• Discuss subject you have chosen for your iPad Magazine. Collect two existing (digital) articles based on your subject matter that you can use for 2 of the 4 stories that will be required for the project. Save them into the dopbox folder ‘Mag-Subjects’

Presentations

• Matteo Bologna
• Massimo Vignelli
• Lucian Bernhard
• Paul Renner
• Louise Fili

Lesson

InDesign

• Review Folio
• Interactivity: Overlays

Lab

• Establishing style-guide for magazine continued. Layout the feature article in InDesign according to iPad specs. Include the following:
  1. Choose body copy typeface
  2. Choose header font
  3. Determine color scheme
  4. Set up columns
  5. Bring in one image (include caption)
  6. Create one pull-quote

Homework

• Finalize design of feature article in InDesign – be prepared to present to class next week.
• Bring in second article – a collection of 8-10 facts. For example if your subject is food, perhaps you would find 8-10 seasonal, local vegetables to feature. An image for each with a related fact.
• Post any requests you have for iPad Magazine to this blog (Week 10) and I will pass them on to the department.
• Watch: Digital Publishing – Design Layouts, including Interactivity
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG00RwoxubM

Agenda

Homework DUE

• Research for project 2. Choose a subject category from the list above for your iPad Magazine. Find two existing (digital) articles based on your subject matter that you can use for 2 of the 4 stories that will be required for the project. Save them into the dopbox folder ‘Mag-Subjects’
  1. One of the articles should be a feature story – about 2-3 pages in length.
  2. The other article should be a collection of 8-10 facts. For example if your subject is food, perhaps you would find 8-10 seasonal, local vegetables to feature. An image for each with a related fact.
• Since we did not get to any presentations in class last week we will push them to today. We may not get to all of them.

Presentations

• Tony DiSpigna
• Matteo Bologna
• Paula Scher
• Massimo Vignelli
• Lucian Bernhard
• Paul Renner
• Louise Fili

Lesson

InDesign

• What is a Folio?
• Setting up a Folio in the Folio Builder

Lab

• Make sure your final booklet PDF is in dropbox Week7 folder.
• Establishing style-guide for magazine. Begin to layout the feature article. Include the following:
  1. Choose body copy typeface
  2. Choose header font
  3. Determine color scheme
  4. Set up columns
  5. Bring in one image (include caption)
  6. Create one pull-quote

Homework

• Watch: Adobe DPS: Create your first folio
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XbbVuQDJ6Y
• Finalize and print Urban Legend booklet

Agenda

Homework DUE

• Finish off booklet. PDF should be in dropbox Week7 folder. We will continue to review and refine.

Presentations

• Tony DiSpigna
• Matteo Bologna
• Paula Scher
• Massimo Vignelli

Lab

• Justifying type in InDesign. See example: JustifyingType
• How to refine the spacing of justified type: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZAV8tPAoXQ
• Discussion of project 2. Choose one of the following subject categories:
  1. Fashion
  2. Sport
  3. Food/ Cuisine
  4. Travel/ Leisure
  We will pair off into groups to conduct content research: 3 articles and related imagery.

Homework

• Continue to refine Urban Legend booklet according to in-class critique.
• Collect research for project 2 based on group discussions. Choose a subject category from the list above for your iPad Magazine. Find two existing (digital) articles based on your subject matter that you can use for 2 of the 4 stories that will be required for the project. Save them into the dopbox folder ‘Mag-Subjects’
  1. One of the articles should be a feature story – about 2-3 pages in length.
  2. The other article should be a collection of 8-10 facts. For example if your subject is food, perhaps you would find 8-10 seasonal, local vegetables to feature. An image for each with a related fact.
• Since we did not get to any presentations in class last week we will push them into next week’s class. Please come prepared!

Agenda

There will be a short quiz today on the terms covered in class to date.

Homework DUE

• First draft of book DUE today – we will print a few select pages and have an in-class critique.

Presentations

• Massimo Vignelli
• Gail  Anderson
• Jessica  Hische

Lab

• Time to finish booklets
• Discussion of project 2. I will show examples of what the piece will entail.

Homework

• Finish off booklet. Aim to save PDF into dropbox Week7 folder by next Wednesday.

Agenda

Homework DUE

• I am still missing a few of your ‘final – edited’ Urban Legend stories. Please save week3 folder in dropbox ASAP, or you will be marked late.
• Type booklet assignment continued…
• Reading: http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/contents/grid/

Lecture

• Continue to look at examples in magazines and newspapers
• Discussion of project 2. I will show examples of what the piece will entail.

Handouts

• COMD2327-Assignment#6
• COMD2327_Typographers

Lab

• Time to work on Assignment 3, 4, 5, and 6

Homework

• First Draft of Book DUE NEXT Week
• Next week Quiz: Grid/layout/leading/measurements/alignment/kerning/tracking, etc
  All items covered in this assignment and in the two ‘term’ handouts given week2 and week3
• Work on Assignment#6 See handout above.
  Here are the list of stories to go with exercises #16-18:
  16. Fenrir by Gabriella Nieves
  17. The Holy Grail by Roberto Joseph
  18. The Teke Teke by Priscilla Rios or __________  by Mark Criollo

Edited stories based on comments you received should be saved into dropbox folder – week3. Please do so immediately if you have not already.

Agenda

Homework DUE

• I am still missing several of your ‘final – edited’ Urban Legend story. It MUST be saved in the week3 folder in dropbox ASAP.
• 6 photographs (if I did not get yours from last week please post). Each photo should show one example of a bad use of type based on the week2 and week3 definition of terms handouts. For example find an example of bad kerning. Or an example of a neglected widow in some body copy. Please post image with caption to your Openlab page and send me the link to the comments section of week3 of this blog.
• Type booklet assignments #4.

Lecture

• Here is a great resource for everything you need to know about type: http://www.thinkingwithtype.com by Ellen Lupton
• Continue to look at examples in magazines and newspapers

Handouts

• COMD2327-Assignment#5

Lab

• Time to work on Assignment 3, 4 and 5

Homework

• Please read: http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/contents/grid/
• Work on Assignment#5 See handout above.
  Here are the list of stories to go with exercises #11-15:
  11. Mulan by Shanyia Knibbs
  12. Dancing With the Devil by Charlene Chen
  13. The Five Chinese Brothers by Hailey Kohler
  14. The Story of Helios by Angel Caquias
  15. The Crow and the Pitcher by Alexander Johnson

Edited stories based on comments you received should be saved into dropbox folder – week3. Please do so immediately if you have not already.