Category Archives: rhetoric

Visual Rhetoric 9.2: Book Production Presentation

Posted on March 10, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

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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Advanced Composition 9.1: Giroux

Posted on March 8, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: What did you make of Giroux? Toward a Problem Homework Giroux I am interesting in hearing about what passages you focused on in your blogs, and what you had to say. Toward a Problem I have put the … Continue reading →

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Visual Rhetoric 9.1: Book Cover and Jacket

Posted on March 8, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: Book cover and jacket Hand back posters Book Cover and Jacket Today I wanted to revisit the book cover portion of the project. You will notice that I am asking for a book cover with a jacket, the … Continue reading →

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Visual Rhetoric 8 (Friday): Creating a Master Page

Posted on March 4, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

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 8.2: Generating a Layout Grid (in InDesign)

Posted on March 3, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: watch a few tutorials do some math create a master page in InDesign for your poetry

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Advanced Composition 8.1: Academically Adrift (2)

Posted on March 1, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s plan: Reading Questions Discussion

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Visual Rhetoric 8.1: Book Production Resources

Posted on March 1, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

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 (Friday): Production Research and InDesign

Posted on February 26, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: Review Project Two Confirm Project Two Groups Golden Section/Ratio and Page Design Book Production Research Project Break InDesign #7 Review Project Two Let’s (finally) do this. Book Production Project Today we begin our second project of the semester. … Continue reading →

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Advanced Comp 7.1: Nathan, Blogs

Posted on February 23, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

Today’s Plan: A Quick Quiz Quick Review Blogs Responding to Papers Discuss Nathan Homework

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Visual Rhetoric 7.1: Book Production Research

Posted on February 23, 2016 by insignificantwrangler@gmail.com

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

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