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11.W: Crucible Design Project [Nuts and Bolts]

Today’s Plan: Design Inspiration Revisited Link to Materials Project Timeline Design Deliverables and Expectations Resources / Saving Files Working With Master Pages Design Inspiration Mea Culpa on the end of last class. Link to Materials Here it is. Project Timeline … Continue reading

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ENG 328 9.M: Zine Project

Today’s Plan: Zine Project Setting Up Your Zine in InDesign Wednesday: Porting Your Book Cover to InDesign Friday: Bring a Print Copy of Your Zine to Class Zine Project Expectations Here is a refresh of the expectations I shared last … Continue reading

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ENG 328 8.W: Mocking Up Book Covers

Today’s Plan: What Should We Be Thinking About? Book Covers Image Resources Sketches / Mock Ups Homework What Should We Be Thinking About? Page Layout Katrina: author bios in Typehouse Katrina: line length (what we don’t want to do) Emma: … Continue reading

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ENG 328 8.M: Literary Magazine Project

Today’s Plan: Literary Magazine Project Thinking about Book Covers and Genre Type Some Text Homework Literary Magazine Project Some vitals: This will be an individual project We will review projects in class on Friday the 13th This will be a … Continue reading

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Visual Rhetoric Week 9 (Friday): Book Production Presentation

Today’s Plan : Book Cover and Jacket Book Production Presentation Book Production Project Rubric Garr Reynolds and Presentation Zen Design Canvas assignment: Make a Zen Presentation Hand back posters Work Time Homework Book Cover and Jacket Today I wanted to … Continue reading

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Visual Rhetoric 9.2: Book Production Presentation

Today’s plan: Book Production Presentation Details Presentation Zen Guidelines Book Production Presentation As I mentioned last class, the final component of our second project is to develop a presentation that “pitches” your book design. The hypothetical scenario here is that … Continue reading

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Visual Rhetoric 8 (Friday): Creating a Master Page

Today’s plan: Review Golden Section and a few tools Review Typography calculator One last wrinkle Creating a Master Page in InDesign Review of Production Concepts: Basic Book Design We’ve spent the last few weeks working on InDesign and the technologies … Continue reading

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Visual Rhetoric 8.1: Book Production Resources

Today’s Plan: Design Theory: Page Layout Design Theory: Typography Design Theory: Book Design Design Theory: Thinking Avant Garde with E.E. Cummings

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Visual Rhetoric 7.1: Book Production Research

Today’s Plan: Handing back posters (missing a few names) & Mid Semester Grades Review Groups / Projects / Poets Production Research Homework

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Visual Rhetoric 6 (Friday): Book Production Project

Today’s Plan: Remix Posters Introduce Project 2 Watch “Work of Art” Form Groups (Canvas Thread) Break InDesign Workshop: Lesson 3 Homework Book Production Project Today we begin our second project of the semester. It is my goal that we finish … Continue reading

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