Agenda

• Sign-up for Openlab and this blog ->
• Type families
• Anatomy of a Typeface
• Homework DUE – Urban Legend – Please print out and I will also collect via dropbox
• ePortfolio on the Openlab – post a final project from your COMD1167 class and link to this blog

Handouts

• COMD2327-Week2-Terms
• COMD2327-Assignment#2
• AnatomyofTypface
• AnatomyofTypface2

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:
COMD2327-Type Classifications

Homework

• Layout calendar (InDesign)
• Make sure your ‘urban legend’ essay is posted into the class dropbox folder. Email me if you can not access.
• Bring in a magazine or newspaper that you think is well designed for our next class meeting.
• Post a project from your last semester in Type&Media to your ePortfolio and add the link to the discussion on OpenLab:
  https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/groups/comd2327-type-ii-s2017/forum/topic/post-one-project-from-comd1167/#post-41815