COMD2327 – Week2

Agenda

  • Sign-up for Openlab
  • Type families
  • Anatomy of a Typeface
  • Homework DUE – Please print out and I will also collect via dropbox

Handouts

Lecture

InDesign Basics

  • Menu overview/ workspace/ pallets
  • Setting up document: size, measurements, columns, bleeds
  • Rulers and grids
  • Inches, points, picas
  • Placing text
  • Dummy text or latin text
  • Text threading
  • Basic formatting of text

Here is a copy of the in-class presentation:
ADV1160 Type Classifications

Homework

We do not meet next week. Our next class is 9/17/15

  • Finish CompingType exercise.
  • Go see Paul Rand exhibit at Museum of the City of New York: www.mcny.org
    (*note they try to charge you entrance – but it’s pay as you wish).
    1220 5th Ave, New York, NY
  • Bring in a magazine or newspaper that you think is well designed for our next class meeting.