Class Info: week 8, march 28
This agenda provides a detailed outline and gives a clear vision of the day’s class.
Topic
Text & image: Grid
Goals: Organize to communicate
Objectives: Provide meaning
To-Do: before class
Post your homework
Prepare to describe your work
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Let’s chat
How is the “tone” of your new composition different from your last composition?
Add your answer to the chat
Opener: low-stakes
On Miro:
Why did you choose your influencer.
Add your favorite image and state what it means to you.
Discussion
How does your text become a poster?
What is a poster?
How is it different than a book?
Text & image: Meaning
Goals: Explore typographic meaning
Objectives: Reinforce the meaning of your text
Poster: 11 x 17, black and white
Explain your influencer to your peers
Convey the excitement of contemporary design
Your poster must be purely typographic.
Information itself must constitute the “imagery” of the poster.
Maintain alignment
Make sure your hierarchy is off center
Hierarchy 101: Work with a basic chunk of information and explore numerous simple variations, using just one type family. The parts of a typographic hierarchy can be signaled with one or more cues: line break, type style, type size, rules, and so on.
remember: Don’t be a slave to the document:
For example, the name does not have to be at the top of the poster.
Activity 1
Workshop: Type and image
Slides: aa type over image poster
Demonstration In-class project: poster demonstration Word& image, InDesign
Open your indesign document.
Create 2 layers
Put your text on the top layer
Add an image to your bottom layer
Adjust
Screenshot and upload to Miro
Do not upload if your text is centered,
Use alignment
Make sure your text is not centered
check that you do not have the same space above and below
check that you do not have the same space to the left and to the right
Mass your white space
make sure you have a large group of white space
Does your audience know what you are trying to communicate?
What new information does your change provide
Activity 2
slides: aaaa poster alignment.pdf
grids with columns. https://www.linkedin.com/learning/typography-working-with-grids/creating-grids-with-columns?autoSkip=true&resume=false&u=73722380
Wrap up
What new information did today’s class provide?
How does it relate to what I already know?
Homework
