Assignment information

MSTD 328 -- Print Production

Important note : Dont edit live through the server. Always save temporary work on your desktop or local hard drive.

To turn in work, connect to the Neelix Server:
(Finder level) menu: Go/Connect to Server
"smb://neelix" / login: "yourlogin" password: "yourpassword" /

Assignment # 1 -- Poster

Create a poster advertising a vacation spot or an event on campus, real or made up. It should have a photo that fills the 8.5 by 11 letter space exactly. Use at least four layers and two or three different fonts. Be sure to vary the size of the text, vary the color of the text and the color of the stroke and background of text boxes.

Assignment #2 -- Typography, copy editing

Copy editing exercise, headline writing and copy fitting. Read the headline rules page and write seven headlines for stories given on that page. Use Indesign on a standard tabloid page. Use a different font for each and indicate the font type.

Assignment #3 -- a. Photo research

Pick a vacation spot (or an idea for a joke vacation) and do photo research for it thru ACCUNET/AP MULTIMEDIA ARCHIVE.

Assignment #3 --b. InDesign Brochure

Create a mailable three-fold brochure on a vacation using an 8.5 high by 11 inch wide sheet. Note the WIDE orientation. Use two pages as front and back. Be sure to understand the panel folding arrangement and work accordingly.

Assignment #4 -- InDesign -- Newsletter

Create a four page newsletter 8.5 x 11 inches on an imaginary subject using dummy text and stock photos. Set the page up with "facing pages" so that you can adjust for recto and verso design. Use all of the following elements: 1) Front page: Flag, folio line, teaser box, picture, cutline, liftout quote, two headlines, two stories, one jump line to an inside page; 2 and 3) inside pages need folio lines, photos, cutlines, headlines, one or two stories per page including story jumped from front page, liftout quotes and other devices as appropriate. Be sure to flow text accurately. 4. folio line, headline, story, quote or photo and cutline optional. Be sure to create a mailer space with return address, bulk postage stamp and space for address sticker.

Assignment #5 -- InDesign -- Tabloic

Create a tabloid newspaper using at least five stories given in the instructors resource files.

Assignment #6 -- InDesign -- Broadsheet --

Width is 14 and height is 22 inches, use 6 columns. Again, use at least five stories found in the instructors resource files.

Assignments # 7 -- InDesign -- Book

Create a three chapter book 6 by 9 inches with facing pages, margins 0.5 inches all around except inside 1 full inch. Set up master pages for folio lines with auto numbering, chapter titles, book title. Create several more chapters, then create new document / Book and bring in all the chapters. The little cross at the bottom of the box will let you add the chapters you just created.

Assignment #8 -- Book cover-- Use Photoshop to create the cover for your book or for the "Millenium Dawn" project.

Assignment #9 -- Create an InDesign photo layout (tabloid or broadsheet) similar to the one on p. 129 Ch. 4 Harrower.

Assignment #10 -- Excel -- Infographics -- Create three charts based on an Excel data file provided by the instructor.

Assignment #11 -- Illustrator -- Infographics -- Create a chart using data imported from Excel.

a) After getting the data the way you want it, do a "File/Save As" and save the Excel data in "Text (Tab delimited)" format.

b) Then open Illustrator and use the Column Chart tool to create a small chart. (You have to click and drag with the tool)

c) A data box will pop up with the chart. (See illustration to the right). If you click on the first button (red arrow) you can open your Excel Text file into the chart. Once its open, click the check box to apply the data to the chart. Your chart should have a set of solild columns now.

Assignment #12 -- Illustrator -- Infographics -- Continue with your chart from #11 and put an illustration into the chart. So instead of a solid column, you have a stack of soda cans or oil barrels. Here's how:

a) Open a graphics resource file. This is under File/Open taking you to HardDrive/Applications/MeteredAps/Adobe Illustrator/ SampleFiles/Graphs&GraphDesigns The first file (column and marker designs) is the best. Open it.

b) Load the illustration. Switch back to your chart from #11. Click on the chart so it is highlighed. Now, from the top menu, open the Graph Column dialogue box. What you see is similar to the illustration at right, but with some of the fields blank.

c) Select your column design, choose repeating type and be sure to fill in the design units (red arrow).

d) Experiment. Note the difference between uniformly scaled and repeating designs.

e) Final touches. Dont forget Title, X value axis (not all years -- just a few ), source and a sentence telling people exactly what they are seeing.

 

It should come out looking like this.

 

But what if... you use uniform scaling (below). Which is more accurate: the repeating type or the uniform scaling type in this case?

 

 

This is uniform scaling