COMD2327 – Week8

On October 22, 2015, in Week8, by Genevieve HItchings

Agenda

Homework DUE

  • Finish off booklet. PDF should be in dropbox Week7 folder. We will continue to review and refine.

Presentations

  • Tony DiSpigna
  • Matteo Bologna
  • Paula Scher
  • Massimo Vignelli

Lab

  • Justifying type in InDesign. See example: JustifyingType
  • How to refine the spacing of justified type: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZAV8tPAoXQ
  • Discussion of project 2. Choose one of the following subject categories:
    1. Fashion
    2. Sport
    3. Food/ Cuisine
    4. Travel/ Leisure
    We will pair off into groups to conduct content research: 3 articles and related imagery.

Homework

  • Continue to refine Urban Legend booklet according to in-class critique.
  • Collect research for project 2 based on group discussions. Choose a subject category from the list above for your iPad Magazine. Find two existing (digital) articles based on your subject matter that you can use for 2 of the 4 stories that will be required for the project. Save them into the dopbox folder ‘Mag-Subjects’
    1. One of the articles should be a feature story – about 2-3 pages in length.
    2. The other article should be a collection of 8-10 facts. For example if your subject is food, perhaps you would find 8-10 seasonal, local vegetables to feature. An image for each with a related fact.
  • Since we did not get to any presentations in class last week we will push them into next week’s class. Please come prepared!
 

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