Topics
This assignment will include the software skills you have learned to date, brought together to create a travel book. There will be page layout, photo editing and illustration and production.
Goals
The stated goal of this assignment is for you to repeat and reinforce skills learned in the five past semesters of Computer Graphics. The hope is that you will demonstrate that you have acquired mastery of these skills. This should also provide one more piece for your portfolio.
Logistics
Your instructor will be your project manager and your art director. They will critique your design decisions and work with you to design the best publication you can.
You’ll check in each class to ensure you’re progressing with your work. Each check-in will contribute to your final grade. You will also have deliverables as you progress.
At each class, you will be provided guidance with the next step of development. There will also be a software tutorial to help you get that week’s tasks completed.
Project Stages
Planning
You will start by project planning the heck out of this. This will include making an inventory of the provided content. You will read all the text. There will be body copy, information for the info-graphic and table data. Take note of the structure of the content. Read more…
Production
Once your planning has been approved, you can move on to production. InDesign will be the hub in which we’ll layout text, photography and illustrations. You will build the document in a way that avoids per-page construction using parent pages, paragraph styles and more of the tools listed. Read more…
Output
We’ll output your publication for multiple intents. You’ll first output a package folder for access to the final native files. You’ll create a PDF for a commercial printer. A PDF for download will also be needed. Finally, you’ll produce an ePUB version for tablet reading. Read more…