Class 28

Class Info

• Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2022

• Meeting Info: In person, Pearl 116, 8:30 to 11:00am, followed by Professor’s office hours from 11:00am to noon in Pearl 116.
• FINAL REFINEMENTS to Projects 01 and 02 due Dec. 12 for today, Dec. 13.

Topic

• Classification: A novelty face. In PDF containing all classifications to date.
• How to make a Candy Cane in Illustrator Handout from Professor Neuringer.
• Recap of a few useful items to use in InDesign

• Project 3: Completed posters and Social Media Posts due Class 29 (Dec. 15)
  • Prepare for submissions and presentations of Project 3. DUE for Class 29 so you can refine in class if necessary.
  • You’re doing three posters—the third poster with text wrap—and four Social Media Posts
  • Remember, our class is doing “CAUSE FOR CONCERN” instead of “PET PEEVE,” but the basic principles are the same.
• Grades depend on attendance, participation, timeliness, adhering to specifications on checklists, and aesthetics.
• Check-in: Is there any you’d me to clarify?

Classification: Novelty Typeface

InDesign Recap

The bulleted items below may be helpful for InDesign

• Unlock items from a Parent Page on a Child Page:
  • Command Shift Click

• Ungroup:
  • Command Shift G

• For FITTING objects into your picture box, go to the MENU ITEM
  • Object > Fitting
  • then choose your preferred fit—taking care NOT to distort your work.

• Fit Content Proportionally using a KEYBOARD COMMAND
  • command: option shift E

• Fill Frame Proportionally KEYBOARD COMMAND:
  • command option shift

Objectives

• Review AND REFINE work to date; complete work.
• Learn additional aspects of InDesign.

Edit work done to date

• Complete and Refine Poster and Social Media Posts.
  • Progress is key. Completed projects without any evidence of process or improvement will reduce your grade.
  • Checklist of key principles to include:
    • Correct use of the grid (margins, columns, rows, gutters)
    • Use of visual hierarchy, presentation and overall design aesthetics
    • Use of typefaces (ideally, limit 2 per poster and social media post).
    • Applying typographical concepts (alignment, leading pt size, tracking, kerning, etc)
    • Color and legibility
    • Photograph must have a credit even if it is yours (add credit to right column of social media post). As mentioned on previous classes, all photo or art must be on the public domain, or must have Creative Commons License
    • Check speed for GIF (make sure is in a forever LOOP)
  • It is OK to introduce color to your posters.
  • Keep two of your Social Media posts Black and White.

InDesign Document containing Project 03. Recap.

• Complete your InDesign Document to contain all of Project 03.

Specs:

• Place all work into one document. .
• Specified text, in addition to content listed below, is as follows:
  • Cause for Concern. This is a heading but does not need to be as large as the title of your concern.
  • The text you wrote
  • A factoid (small amount of factual information you’ve researched
  • The source of above (a link, OR a name with publication and date). “Found on Google” is NOT an accurate source.

What goes where:

• Page 1 
  • Poster 11 x 14 Cause for Concern/ following given grid / Your Concern with specified text (see above).
• Page 2
  • Poster 11 x 14 Cause for Concern/ following given grid / Your Concern with specified text (see above)
• Page 3
  • Poster 11 x 14 Cause for Concern/ following given grid / Text Wrap/ Use 10 of your classmates’s concerns with specified text (see above). You’ll need to do some editing.
• Page 4 
  • 11 x 14 Page with 4 square social media posts
  • REMEMBER: You’ll animate one of the Social Media Posts; upload your gif to Dropbox (along with your Packaged files).

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Activities

Activity 1. During class

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Pulling Your Social Media Posts into InDesign

You can use the same InDesign document you’ve used for your poster.

• 11 X 14″
• NO facing pages
• .5″ margins.

NOTE, however, that we set up the document to have 8 columns—which means the Parent page of “None” and the Parent Page “A” will have 8 columns.

Also, the Social Media posts are 3.5 inches x 3.5 inches, which means they won’t work on the 8-column grid at 100% of the size you created.

So, we’ll create a new Parent Page B, based on “None” and change the number of columns.

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Because we set up the document with 8 columns, “None” has 8 columns.

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Don’t worry. We’ll change the number of columns to 3 IN THE “B” PARENT PAGE. Go into LAYOUT . MARGINS AND COLUMNS and change the number of columns from 8 to 3. Keep the same Page Margins and gutter margin between columns.

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Now you can insert a new page based on Parent “B” (you can also simply pull the icon from the Parent section into the child section.

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Next, we’ll create columns where columns 1 and 2 have widths different from column 3. To do this, we’ll move the actual guides that indicate the column and gutter.

Got to VIEW > GRIDS & GUIDES > and make sure to uncheck (or leave unchecked) LOCK COLUMN GUIDES.

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Create a picture box square that’s 3.5″inches (same a 21 picas).

Place on the top left margin. The guides don’t yet align with the right of the square.

With unlocked guides, you’ll be able to move the guides.

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Using the Selection Tool (black arrow), move the gutter guide to align with the right of your square.

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Place 3.5 ” another square to the right of the first square (i.e. in the second column) and move the gutter guide to align with the end of this second square.

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Add two more squares for a total of four. Position the second two squares .5″ below the top two squares.

For X/Y coordinate lovers, the Y coordinate will be 4.5″

.5″ top margin + 3.5″ depth of square + .5″ = 4.5″

Remember, if you use a frame, the 3.5″ must be included in the dimensions of your 3.5″ square.

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On your page, include the text:

Cause for Concern

Title of your concern

Social Media Posts

Your Name

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Activity 2. During class, depending on your progress. If and only if you’ve refined everything.

TYPE CHALLENGE.

Student Posts > Type Challenge > Lastname_Holidays2_121322

Create an 8.5 x 11″ poster with the word “Holidays” with TYPE ONLY and WITHOUT any illustration. Use Expressive Typography and a typeface different from the one you deployed in Class 27 (Dec. 8). You can work in InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop but, again, use TYPE ONLY. If you work in Photoshop, animate some of it. TYPE ONLY.

NOTE: If you get a message about “not enough space,” then upload your Type Challenge to Dropbox.

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We may do tweening today or possibly-not-probably in Class 29. A PDF is in Dropbox just in case.

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Assignment / To-Do After Class

1.

Complete posters and social media post and Animated gif for review and completion in Class 29, and then presentation during Class 30.

PACKAGE AND UPLOAD TO DROPBOX.

Lastname_Proj03_PrePresent_121322

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2.

TYPE CHALLENGE. Complete an 8.5 x 11″ poster with the word “Holidays” with TYPE ONLY and WITHOUT any illustration. How do you feel about the holidays? Bored? Happy? Crazed? Use Expressive Typography and a typeface different from the one you deployed in Class 27 (Dec. 8). You can work in InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop. If you work in Photoshop, animate some of it. Again, use TYPE ONLY.

Post to STUDENT POSTS > Type Challenge. Lastname_Holidays2_121322

NOTE: If you get a message about “not enough space,” then upload your Type Challenge to Dropbox.

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Upload Project 03 to Dropbox by Wednesday night, December 14.

Post Type Challenge to Open Lab.

All Project 03 work should be complete by end of class, December 15 and uploaded by December 16 so I can organize by December 19 for presentation in class on December 20th (last class).

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