WEEK 10: The week of June 4th
Final Project Due NEXT WEEK:
Second years will be coming to class to talk about next year and the magazine class.
For next week:
Bring in a printed, folding dummy of your design, a one page (NON CODED MOCK UP) micro-site, and a composite PDF which includes:
• Your sketches
• Your final design, reader spread by reader spread
• Your final design with your underlying grid structure visible.
• A one page microsite using a modular grid
Have fun Looking at these sites:
I Love Typography
We Love Typography
Typographica
Letterology
7 Free Typography e-books
Typography and Type Design Resource links
Type Culture
In class: Type Combinations Groups
Brainstorming Techniques (pdf)
Style Board Template (.indt file)
Setting typographic space — Indesign (pdf)
Kerning/Leading Key Commands (pdf)
Creating InDesign Grid Thumbnails (pdf)
Binding Styles and Brochure Folds (pdf)
Paragraph & Character Styles (pdf)
Indesign tips and tricks (pdf)
Things to check in your file (pdf)
Printing a booklet to the Docucolor (pdf)
Chapter 5: Kerning and Tracking
Chapter 6: Small But Important Details
Chapter 7: Understanding the Paragraph and Single-Line Composer
Chapter 8: Alternative Brochure Styles
Chapter 3: Under Creating a Document >> Only Setting the Margin and Column Guides
Chapter 4: Under Managing Pages >>
Only Changing Page Size
079 Using ruler guides: 10 great tricks (Lynda.com)
Chapter: Using Find/Change to clean up text
Chapter 1: Paragraph and character styles
Chapter 2: Styles In Depth — The first 6 videos — up through Using nested line styles
030 Making Professional Drop Caps
Entire Chapter 8: Indents and Spacing
Chapter 14: Margins, Columns and Grids
Chapter 9: Breaking and non-breaking lines, paragraphs, columns, and pages
Chapter 7:Working with vertical alignment
Indesign Tables In Depth (Lynda.com)
Mood Boards: Dressing for different...
How to Create Mood Boards: 30 Expert Tips
Color / Trend Forecasting: Pantone
Color / Trend Forecasting: Franklin Till
Color Fun 1: Color Scheme Designer
Eight tips for combining typefaces
Four techiques for combining fonts
7 typographic resources, and 1 type joke
Just my type — A collection of font pairings from Typekit
Typography and Type Design Resource links