InDesign Help- Part 3!

Here is another WONDERFUL collection of ideas and tips for using InDesign.... Lisa Valuyskaya is great!


Check out the link @http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/03/17/indesign-tips-i-wish-i-d-known-when-starting-out/

The InDesign Challenge!

Let's combine your software skills with the "structures"of columns and the grid.

CREATE a 10 page book, using InDesign, that describes the message of a song or poem. Use type as the dominant visual objects in the book. Solve these design challenges:

1. Use the words of the poem/song lyric as the dominant visuals in the book

2. Show your use of a grid, or column structure to hold the book together.

3. Have an area of EMPHASIS on pages and in the book itself

4. Work with color, or black and white

5. Show VARIETY in the book design.


Document size is 10 pages, CMYK color settings, each page is "letter half" in size (5.5X8.5).

*Use Photoshop and Illustrator to create images, but build the book in InDesign.

A PACKAGE....

Create a "package of your indesign document to collect fonts, images all together!! 

 

InDesign Help, part 2

Here are more skills to learn today...

1. PLACING images into InDesign

Here is the link @ http://help.adobe.com/en_US/indesign/cs/using/WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6bc5a.html#WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6bbea


 Here are the FRAME tools..... not the "rectangle" tools...

THESE are the buttons to fit the frame to your images.....

2. Here is a great VIDEO  i found this morning too!!!

here @ http://tv.adobe.com/watch/creative-suite-podcast-designers/indesign-cs-55-from-start-to-finish/

INDESIGN Help

Here are some links to info on the main tools we used in INDESIGN

1. TEXT WRAP- here @ http://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/text-wrap.html

2. DROP CAP

Here @ http://help.adobe.com/en_US/indesign/cs/using/WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6dd2a.html#WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6dc4a

 

CREATING WITH THE GRID

Use a grid to build an image, using type only.....

The resulting design should demonstrate your understanding and using these ideas:

1. CHANGES across the grid lines in size, value, color, texture, shape....

2. CONNECTIONS across the grid lines ...

3. VARIETY of all elements.... build visual interest

4. EMPHASIS lead us to notice one or more areas as important.

5. GRID structure should be noticable, but not DOMINANT when we delete the grid lines...

CONSIDER that you might break off the grid as a way to get EMPHASIS

Print your design, and post it to your blog-

GRID SYSTEMS!!

Here is the link to more info on the use of GRIDS in design…

http://wawacdesign.blogspot.com/2013/05/working-with-grid.html


And here is a link to a wonderful article about the use of grids… http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/04/14/designing-with-grid-based-approach/

For example, the New York Times web site….. see the structure?

DAVID CARSON

Another legendary designer you should know about..... for his work with typography.

Gather three or more examples of his work and post it to your blog, please.

Here's a link to more info: http://wawacdesign.blogspot.com/2011/09/david-carsons-type-designs.html

Examples of his work are here @http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/work/

and here is more: http://www.davidcarsondesign.com/t/tag/raygun/ 

and here is a great TED talk by Carson.... @http://www.ted.com/talks/david_carson_on_design

Even more here @ http://hillmancurtis.com/artist-series/david-carson/

AESTHETIC APARATUS

These guys are very coool!!! Perhaps you might like them, eh?

Here is the link http://aestheticapparatus.com/

Ideas For The Band Logo Project....

Design a logo for a "contemporary punk" band.....

The logo will be used on a t-shirt, so it must be printed black on white.... no greys.

Look at the design books we have in class for some ideas about the "look" of the shirt design....

Use either, or both Illustrator and Photoshop top create the design.

 

This is the scanned logo drawing given to us......