Today’s Plan:
- Crucible Design Project Expectations
- Crucible Design Project Resources
- Crucible Design Project Team Formation
- Homework
Hey Marc!
Next time:
- Table of Contents construction from day one, think about setting the paragraph style and then what to do about author names (see email with auto-toc instructions and spacing / dots)
Crucible Design Project Expectations
Final Deliverable:
- .indd and .pdf file of your Fall 2021 Crucible
- Final due date (absolutely no late exceptions: Friday, November 19th by 1:15pm [Crucible Folk])
Grading Rubric/Design Checklist:
- Content (particularly tricky things:)
- Formatting a Table of Contents [look at 2019 and 2020 examples for layout]
- Page Numbers
- Image Credits
- Crucible logo (back cover)
- Title Page (follow comment instructions. sigh)
- Dodd-Pheromone Trails-concrete poem
- The Current- Dylisia Jae: two column layout (we can adjust line height
- Cellular Death- Katrina Johns-concrete poem
- Baggage: do NOT use an ugly image, write it out
- Typography
- Font selection and balance [mix at least two different fonts / title / author / body copy]
- Font size [Crucible folk: 10pt?]/ kerning? / Use a modular scale [I’ll be paying attention to how your typography scales]
- Leading/Line spacing [note: the higher your x-height, the more you should try bumping your leading up; generally leading is set between 1.2 and 1.5–also, the more leading, the more pages, the higher the cost of production]
- Line length (how many characters per line? Be sure for print not web)
- Deal with Orphans
- Other Design
- Backgrounds and bleeds (zine format: we’re paying for color printing with [crucible folk?] full bleeds–make sure your design takes advantage of this throughout the document)
- Strategic use of color / Developing a color scheme [more than just images should be in color]
Crucible Resources
Crucible Project resource folder
Note on covertemplate.pdf: you can open this in Photoshop or Illustrator. Create a new layer and lock the template layer. Design your cover, then delete the original image.
Anticipating a few questions:
- Beth Hill, First Steps in Formatting for Print
- 6 tips for better line spacing in your typography
- Devising a Color Palette for Your Book
- Print Ninja guide to color and mood (creating your own colors)
- 100 Canva color palettes
Homework
Uh… start doing your thing?
