Most of the fonts are probably one of these:
Download fonts (password given in class)
Also! We didn’t use this font in our type specimens, but Work Sans might also be a decent match for some of the type in these posters.
In this exercise, we’re going to dissect and recreate three posters or other design artifacts. In doing so, you’ll look for an underlying logic in the existing design, recreate a grid, learn a little about the designers, and consider typographic hierarchy and distinction.
Find posters from this board
1. The big reminder: don’t forget that books are due 11/5, at the beginning of class. You will not have time to finish them in class, and you should be ready to review them right at the beginning of class.
2. As you finish books, make sure to put supplies back in the box/cubby so that other people will have access to them. Don’t take them anywhere else.
Working on books!
Be ready to print (if you haven’t printed yet)
If you’re still printing your book, don’t forget that there are printing instructions here. (there’s also a link in the left-hand menu)
As we finish books, here are the things your finished book will be graded on:
Is your book set up in a way to make reading easy/enjoyable? Does it have margins that make sense? Are page numbers consistent and do they relate to the rest of the page?
Did you pay attention to the small typographic details we’ve been over in class? Partial list of things to look for: correct dashes, italics, real small caps (if you have small caps), avoiding awkwardly hyphenated words and leftover lines, etc.
All the things where you have to look over your text carefully to find? Those fall under this.
When you bound the book, did you bind it well? Did you cut well? Does the end result look like a polished, finished project?
Do things aesthetically go together and seem right?
Did you meet project milestones and keep up with the book’s process, consistently making progress over the course of the project?
Did you turn in your PDF on time? Did you turn in your book on time?
Turn in PDFs for your books here
A discretionary hyphen lets you choose where to hyphenate a word in Indesign. If you add it at the beginning or end of the word, Indesign will get rid of the hyphen in the word.
Make a discretionary hyphen with the shortcut command shift hyphen.
You can prevent many of these in the hyphenation settings in Indesign. Hyphenation settings are in the menu found at the bottom right of the Character/Paragraph control bar. Or in the menu in the Paragraph palette.
There, you can turn off hyphenating across columns and hyphenating the last word of a paragraph. (see the image below)
Increase or decrease letterspacing in the affected paragraph or a paragraph immediately above it.
You don’t want the different spacing of the text to show. So, you probably shouldn’t go over 15 or below -15 for the Tracking.
For these, you might also increase or decrease letterspacing, but for a few words preceding the affected word.
You can also find a hyphenated word in the same paragraph as the affected line and add a discretionary hyphen (command shift hyphen) to get rid of the hyphen and get Indesign to reflow the text in the paragraph.
Talking about your book’s covers
Talking about making a full proof, including things to be looking for before you finish your book
Talking about due dates
Working!
Work to have your cover design finished
Work to have your book ready to print and bind
Get any supplies you need to buy (paper, different thread, etc.)