Class 18

Class Info

• Date: Tuesday, October 31, 2023
• 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.

Happy Halloween!

Topic

• Review and refine legibility (in class word associations on textures) from Class 17.
• 3-Dimensional type.
• Possibly apply lettering to a 3-D object (more likely class 19).
• Project 2. Complete files After Class 19 (Thursday, November 2) in prep for Class 20. Upload by Monday Nov. 6 for presentation of Project 02 on Tuesday, November 7.
  • Review File Submissions to clean up in preparation for completed Project 2.
  • Think ahead to Class 19 on Nov. 2 so presentations can start on time during Class 20 (Nov. 7).

Activities

Activity 1. Recap: Legibility

Post-Class update: I reviewed most of these one-on-one.

From Class 17:

Activities

Activity 2. 3D Type

Post-Class update: this was really our main activity.

We’ll take the word “Drip” and render it in 3-D.
See Handout in Dropbox. Also see an 8-panel PDF in Dropbox and Image below.

• Create an Illustrator Document. 3 inches square. 4 artboards. Spacing .5″ (half inch).
• Take the word “drip.” Use the Touch Type Tool to move letters around.
• Create outlines
• Add an offset path. Change colors.
• Go to Windows>3D and Materials. Then Object >Extrude (manipulate as desired).
• Go to Windows >3D and Materials. Then Objext > Extrude > Inflate
• Go to Windows > 3D and Material s. Then Object > Extrude > Inflate > Choose a Material.
• EXPERIMENT. DO FOUR VARIATIONS (starting with Step 4, below).

For your Project 2 presentation, you need only 4 words. Do your own. Experiment.

Activities

Activity 3. Complete your Lettering to apply to an object.

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Preview

Presentation Prep for Class 19 / 20. Looking ahead to presentation.

• Overview of Presentation Specs is below. Also, see Example in Dropbox.
• Create an InDesign document to size of 11 x 8.5 inches
  • 7 page document
  • Landscape
  • NO facing pages
    
    Margins:
  • 1″ top and bottom margins
  • .75 left and right margins
    • See below for additional measurements.
  • Once your document is completed, insert the following content:
    • Page 1: Place the sketches of your four words (Expressive Type) 
    • Page 2: Place your 4 words in Illustrator
    • Page 3: Place 4 variations of the word “drip” in 3D
    • Page 4: Place the sketches of your Lettering/Favorite food, sport, pastime.
    • Page 5: Place the final design of the Lettering assignment 
    • Page 6: Application of your Letting to a 3-D object.
    • Page 7: Stand-alone Exercise: the Legibility Study with textures you made (Class 17)
• Save your InDesign File, 
• Then File> Export as a PDF
• Naming: Save as: Lastname_Project2_precheck_110223.
• NOTE: The name of your presentation file for Class 20 will be: Lastname_Proj2_ToPresent_110623 (for November 7th)
• Place PDF in DROPBOX

Below is how to set up your InDesign Document for Presentation.

Set up your document.

• 11 inches wide. 
• 8.5 inches high. 1 inch margins top and bottom. 
• .75″ margins left and right. 

Include 7 pages:

In PARENT PAGE, Add heading and footer with your name.

In your child pages, insert subheadings. 

NOTE: to unlock the text box created in the Parent Page, use the COMMAND and SHIFT keys simultaneously.

Page 1

Sketches of your 4 words.

Page 2

Your 4 words using a Sans Serif typeface, done in Illustrator. For this first page, follow the margins for the 4 picture boxes. Including a .5pt frame, each of the four picture boxes will be 3 inches square. See below.

Page 3

The word “drip” in 3D.

Page 4

Sketches for your Lettering of Favorite Food, Sport, Pastime.

Page 5

Your Chosen Lettering, completed.

Page 6

Your Lettering applied to an object.

Page 7

Your Legibility studies from class 16.

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Notes re your: 4 words, done in Illustrator (during classes 12 and 13)

• Since now we are going to place our 4 words from Illustrator into InDesign, it is best to have them as PDFs (not as jpegs). NOTE: jpegs are pixel-based and don’t provide as clear a resolution as desired.
• Your 4 words are in Illustrator. So, open the file with your 4 words, remove any borders if you have them. Save your Illustrator FILE.
• GO TO FILE>SAVE AS. Under FORMAT SELECT PDF > then Use Artboards>range: 1-4
• This will give you 1 pdf file with 4 pages

Next, return to the InDesign file you’ve created for your Presentation.

Go to File > Place. 

Alternatively, use the keyboard commands: Command and D simultaneously.

To get the option to insert pages individually, check “Show Import Options.”

NOTE: Choose IMPORT OPTIONS to enable you to choose each of the four pages.

Depending on the software version, 1 PDF file with 4 pages may not work. If that’s the case, save 4 different PDFs.

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NOTE: For pages 1 and 4, the placement of the files/images of your sketches will vary based on the independent nature of your work.

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Assignment / To Do/Continue after Class:

***Complete and upload Legibility exercise

***Complete 3-D type exercise. You do not need to upload it. You will insert the PDFs of your four panels with “drip” in 3_D into your InDesign document

*** Continue final edits of your lettering.

*POSSIBLY prepare for in-class presentation and file submission 
Project 2 Final Versions of Expressive Type and Lettering DUE for Class 19 (by Nov. 1 as a pre-check for Class 19 (Nov. 2) and presentation on Class 20 (Nov. 7). If you’re at the stage where you’re working on your InDesign document, package it. File name: Lastname_Projext2_precheck_103123

Remember:

• Save File in InDesign
• Save as: “Lastname_Project02_precheck_103123”
  • Package
  • Upload PDF to DROPBOX

Project 02 is 10% of your grade.

Happy and safe Halloween!

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