Portfolio of Student Work
Course Outline
Course Identification
ART 186: Design I: Layout
Credit hours: 3
Contact hours: 6: lecture 0, lab 6
Prerequisite: ART 146 or consent of the instructor
Course Description
This art/graphic design studio course focuses on the planning and design of print and digital page layout. Requires the creation of both single- and multiple-page documents detailing document construction, working with images, typography, and custom colors. Fee is required. (6 contact hours)
Textbooks/Reading List
Software
Adobe CC: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat Professional
Platform
Macintosh iMac, OS X
Course Goals
Course End Competencies
Student’s final grade will depend upon the student’s comprehension of the following course end competencies. The student will:
Units
Working With Text:
Major Concepts
Point Breakdown
Four Projects—70 points
Final Exam Project - 5 points
Final Portfolio, print/digital - 10 points
In-class projects/critique/participation - 10 points
Schedule
See class calendar.
ART 186: Design I: Layout
Credit hours: 3
Contact hours: 6: lecture 0, lab 6
Prerequisite: ART 146 or consent of the instructor
Course Description
This art/graphic design studio course focuses on the planning and design of print and digital page layout. Requires the creation of both single- and multiple-page documents detailing document construction, working with images, typography, and custom colors. Fee is required. (6 contact hours)
Textbooks/Reading List
- Required Texts Instructor handouts
- Web research, tutorials, blogs
- Portable storage device: Flash drive or portable hard drive
- Sketchbook, visual journal, portfolio
- Other supplies as needed to complete projects
Software
Adobe CC: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat Professional
Platform
Macintosh iMac, OS X
Course Goals
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of the operation of page-layout software’s main features.
- Use the tools, menus and palettes to create documents.
- Produce and use basic font types.
- Import images into a document.
- Work with text boxes and typography.
- Create style sheets.
- Create picture boxes and work with images.
- Create custom colors and match specific color palettes.
- Link text boxes, rotate items, run text around items or pictures, work with polygonal picture boxes, and group items for maximum efficiency.
- Produce a portfolio of work that demonstrates the quality and substance of thinking and creative work.
Course End Competencies
Student’s final grade will depend upon the student’s comprehension of the following course end competencies. The student will:
- Learn to use the design process effectively in the creation of layout-based projects
- Learn how to integrate principles of composition & design, typography, and visual communication to enhance the content of projects.
- Learn about basic fonts, use of typography and basic typographic terminology such as leading and kerning.
- Have a clear understanding of the operation of main features (palettes and tools) of software used in this course.
- Be able to import text and graphics.
- Be able to work with type; create type on a path; link text boxes; and use text wrap.
- Create custom colors and color palettes, swatches, and gradients.
- Be able to work with text, graphics and unassigned boxes.
- Create and use style sheets, object styles and master pages.
- Produce a portfolio of work that will demonstrate the quality and substance of the students' thinking and layout abilities.
- Be able to save, copy, delete, organize, understand & maintain document links and output the files they create to the appropriate format.
- Students must produce a portfolio of advanced work that will demonstrate to a future employer the quality and substance of students’ thinking and image making.
Units
Working With Text:
- Layout terminology and formats
- Generation of single page documents (dimensions), margins & measurements.
- Creating textboxes, using placeholder text and story editor
- Alignment of text, creating columns using text frame options, insetting text, text direction,
- Threading and oversets
- Type on a path, text wrapping, Drop Caps
- Readability and Legibility via kerning, leading and spacing (pg 53, 58-61)
- Hierarchy of headings. tabs and columns
- Units of measurement, Anatomy of Fonts, Classification and families of Font.
- Type selection and design and legibility considerations
- Type as Shape, value and texture
- Pairing with design concepts for impact and integration
- Expressive typography
- Use of Frame tools, placing, fitting choices
- Managing Objects and Object styles
- Classification of images for use and generation of concepts
- Type driven & image driven layouts
- Presentation - arranging type and image, transitions, continuity
- Ethical considerations and options in the use of images
- Image enhancement capabilities and tools.
- Grids and Proportions
- Style sheets - basic set-up and use
- Design for continuity, use of master pages
- Flow and connectivity
- Interconectivity & PDF files
- Monochrome, Duotone, Grayscale,
- Color Images (bit-depth, resolution, dithering, halftones)
- Terms - luminosity, saturation, value, temperature
- Technical considerations: RGB & CMYK
- Exporting documents for output on printers - laser and ink jet and digital production via PDF and/or interactive files.
- Cost factor
- Graphic file format distinctions, i.e., indd, pdf, psd, ai, eps, tif, jpg, png etc..
- File-naming conventions/file storage: external storage devices, CD/DVDs, the server, and online sites.
Major Concepts
- The student will understand the operation of a Macintosh-based computer workstation: system hardware and operating system software.
- The generation and manipulation of single- and multiple-page layout mechanical and comprehensives.
- Learn page-layout software capabilities and tools using industry standard software.
- Image enhancement capabilities and tools.
- Monochrome, Duotone, Grayscale, and Color Images (bit-depth, resolution, dithering, halftones, RGB vs. CMYK, memory).
- Pre-press techiques.
- Learn to use the front-end design process effectively in the creationof layout-based projects.
- Learn how to integrate principles of composition and design, typograpy, and visual communication to enhance the content of projects..
- Learn about basic fonts, use of typography and basic typographic terminology such as leading and kerning.
- Have a clear understanding of the operation of main features (palettes and tools) of software used in this course.
- Be able to import text and graphics.
- Be able to work with text, graphics, and unassigned boxes.
- Create and use style sheets, object styles and master pages.
- Produce a portfolio of work that will demonstrate the quality and substance of the students’ thinking and layout abilities.
- Be able to save, copy, delete, organze, understand and maintain document links and output the files they create to the appropriate format.
- The use of input devices (scanner, digital cameras, databases, etc.).
- The use of output devices (printers–laser and ink jet, digital output.
- Graphic file format distinctions, i.e., indd, pdf, psd, ai, eps, tif, jpg, png etc..
- File-naming conventions/file storage (external storage devices, burnable CD/DVDs, the server, and online sites.
- Output of files to hardccopy via laser and/or inkjet printers, and digital production via PDF and/or interactive files.
Point Breakdown
Four Projects—70 points
- Single-page document - 15 points
- Single-page, folding document - 15 points
- Mult-page document - 20 points
- Mult-page document - 20 points
Final Exam Project - 5 points
Final Portfolio, print/digital - 10 points
In-class projects/critique/participation - 10 points
Schedule
See class calendar.