Author: Maria Giuliani (Page 4 of 5)

Faculty: This example post demonstrates how you can provide information about each class for your students. It uses the category “Classes” and can be found under Activities > Classes in the site menu. Use the suggested outline below to structure your class posts.

Class Info

• Date: Add date
• Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location

To-Do Before Class

Title page, page 2, page 13 and type problems 6 to 10

Topic

Last tweaks and how to prepare files for presentations

Activities

Read: 20 Iconic Examples of Book Design from Gabriela Popa / Creatopy

This web/article features some interesting different approaches to typography for book cover design.

Instructor will meet one-on-one to discuss last tweaks, and finalize title page

To-Do After Class

PRESENTATIONS next week

Files due next week

Class Info

• Date: Add date
• Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location

To-Do Before Class

Problems 1 to 5

Topic

• Continue Type Problems /Urban Legends Project: Problems 6-10
• Books and presentations are due in Class 6. Book will not be printed, and will be exported as a final PDF. Instructor will collect IDML and INDESIGN files too.
  
• What are DropCaps (Initial Caps)? What do we need to consider when using them.

REVIEW this Quick Reference PDF about Dropcaps

• Quotation marks. Use the right ones!

Review this Quick Reference PDF regarding quotation marks and primes

Objectives

• Further understanding of typography

Activities

Read this section in fonts.com / fontology
About correct characters such as primes and quotes

Work on Problems 6 to 10: Refer to this PDF for all specs for assignment

To-Do After Class

• Complete problems 6 to 10
• Additionally finalize title page (page 1), For this assignment this will also work as your cover introduction (page 2) and add all specs to page 13
• Export PDF and place in Class Dropbox

Class Info

• Date: Add date
• Meeting Info: Add online details or in-person location

To-Do Before Class

Typeface selection and document already in InDesign

Topic

Problems 1 to 5

• Alignment
• Line height or leading and its legibility (relationship to pt size) 3
• Text Wrap and issues around image and text
• Content and size relationship with space

Objectives

• Students gain a better understanding of common typographical problems and why and how to fix them

Activities

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Use the document that you created last class meeting. Here are examples on how the first problem (Ex1) was solved. Please come up with your own solutions and designs. This is only an example and yours should not look like this.

We will solve typographic problems 1 to 5, and use the text provided by students.

Please refer to this PDF with overall specs and list of type problems

To-Do After Class

Complete problems 1 to 5.

Complete Page 1 and 2

Save as an InDesign File and export as a PDF

Place in class Dropbox or as indicated by instructor

lastname_firstname_problems1to5.pdf