WEEK 9: the week of May 28th
Work in progress critique:
Cross critique feedback for your designs with the other first year class or 2nd year design students.
BREAK
Feedback sessions as needed. Work on your project for the rest of the class.
Homework:
Continue working on your final project.
Recommended reading:
Samara p 160–203
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