COMD2327 – Week2
Agenda
- Sign-up for Openlab
- Type families
- Anatomy of a Typeface
- Homework DUE – Please print out and I will also collect via dropbox
Handouts
Lecture
InDesign Basics
- Menu overview/ workspace/ pallets
- Setting up document: size, measurements, columns, bleeds
- Rulers and grids
- Inches, points, picas
- Placing text
- Dummy text or latin text
- Text threading
- Basic formatting of text
Here is a copy of the in-class presentation:
ADV1160 Type Classifications
Homework
We do not meet next week. Our next class is 9/17/15
- Finish CompingType exercise.
- Go see Paul Rand exhibit at Museum of the City of New York: www.mcny.org
(*note they try to charge you entrance – but it’s pay as you wish).
1220 5th Ave, New York, NY - Bring in a magazine or newspaper that you think is well designed for our next class meeting.