Category: Classes (Page 5 of 5)

Class Info

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

To-Do Before Class

Make sure that the text for the Urban Legend Project was sent to instructor via email

Topic

You will continue to build on the foundation learned Type and Media. Some of the vocabulary for this project will be similar but with a different use.

Introduction to Project I (classes 2 to 5)
Urban Legends, Myths and Folktales 

Objectives

The main objective of this project is to understand  common typographical problems and how/why to fix them. Problems will address typographical issues caused by typeface selection (variations and variable fonts), overall space and layout, pt. size, alignment, line width, line-height, letter and word spacing, contrast and others.

Additionally, this project addresses layout creation and encourages student to pay close attention to the default settings of publication software and make adjustments as needed.

Activities

Let’s set up an INDESIGN new document

Go to FILE > NEW> DOCUMENT

Enter the following values:

• WIDTH: 11 inches (66 picas) x HEIGHT: 8.5 inches (51picas)
• Orientation Landscape
• 16 pages
• NO facing Pages
• NO Primary Text box
• 4 column grid, with 1 pica gutter
• Margins: top and right 3 picas // bottom: 4 picas // left: 21 picas

To-Do After Class

Complete document as per specs provided.

Typeface research: Start looking at possible typefaces to use.

Look in Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts (if you have subscription)

Select:
One Sans Serif (variable or with an extensive family)
One Serif (variable of with an extensive family)
One Script

 

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

• Check your City Tech email regarding your membership to this course OpenLab site.
• You should be members prior to class start Search for COMD1257 and the Specific Section Number
• If you have access to InDesign have it ready prior to class time

Topic

Class structure
Meeting each other
What the class is about?

Activities

Review typography basics

Add activity

To-Do After Class

For our first series of assignments and project 1, we will need content.

Every Student will write from their personal point of view a story related to their favorite Urban Legend or Folk Tale.

• Please send via email before next class.
  Do not design anything, we just need the text and can be sent directly into the body copy of an email.
• Add title, followed by a short narrative
  The length of the story should not exceed four paragraphs (between 225 to 300 words)
• Add an em dash (—)followed by your name 

Please see example below, with approx. 230 words)

LA CIGUAPA

When I was a child, I lived on a very busy avenue. It was constantly noisy, even at night. My room was very close to the street, and I was pretty much accustomed to all the people, the cars, the honking, the music, etc. I learned to sleep through the loudest of sounds.

Every year we would spend vacations at the family farm.  This was way up in the mountains, and it was the complete opposite of life in the city. There was an eerie silence. The only sound that you could hear at night was that of the little critters, birds and insects. It was hard to sleep without the city noises.

One night we heard a melodic sound, almost like someone singing. One of my cousins told us that it was probably “La CIGUAPA”. He said that “La CIGUAPA” was a woman who would lured others with her chant and then killed them.  He described her as a beautiful woman who walked around the mountains without clothing, but her very long hair covered her entire body. What shocked and scared me the most was that her feet pointed backwards.

Needless to say, I did not sleep that night. Every time I go to sleep at a farm I think about LA CIGUAPA.

—M. Giuliani