art 2413 typography fall 17 proj 3B intro to multi-page layout & interactive pdf objectives Students introduced to pre-made layered mockups that utilized smart art by placing vector artwork into the Photoshop files. More work with InDesign as students begin to work with documents that are multiple pages. Illustrator s Artboards the power that InDesign has with Pages. Students will be exposed to InDesign s ability to create interactive PDFs. Student must write a small explanation about design choices, which is a skill that must be continually refine as long as one practices the craft. Page layout using the grid theory and controlling visual hierarchy are also introduced. These two principles are paramount in graphic design, especially for its primary mediums of print and web. steps: SET UP 1. The following should be completed in class on Mon Oct. 2nd and Wed Oct 4th. Work outside of class if necessary. Download the compressed file from nikkiarnell. net. Drag it to the desktop and work with it from there. If I see you are not working from the desktop while working in class, this means you are not following directions and your grade will slip. 2. Open the InDesign file. It will warn you that there are 3 missing links. Hit ok. 3. SAVE AS your file to YOUR LAST NAME_Proj3B_Fall17.indd. (Name this correctly or your grade will slip for not following directions. View : Extras : Show Frame Edges. View : Grids & Guides : Show Guides. 4. Window : Pages. You will see you have 1 blank Page and 3 Master Pages. Double-click on the blank Page in the dialogue box and the white sheet should show in your workspace. 5. Pull down the A Master Page over this blank Page. Then pull down a B Master Page for page 2 and a C Master Page for page 3. 6. You will notice that you cannot do anything to the 3 pages of your document. Select all 3 (hold down shift) and pull the arrow on the corner of the Pages box down to Override All Master Page Items.
WORK : IMAGES 7. Instead of individually placing your images, just relink them: Window : Links. Select the first item in the Links palette with a question mark and pull down the drop-down menu to Go To Link. Now you know for sure which image you are replacing (though you could probably tell more quickly just by glancing in this very short document). 8. Keep that item in the Links palette selected and pull down to Replace Link. 9. InDesign will ask you for the file. Find the correct mockup you created with your artwork. Because it is a layered Photoshop file, InDesign will bring up another box. Just hit OK. 10. This file should perfectly replace the previous. To be sure, with that image selected on your artboard, go Object : Fitting : Fit Content Proportionally. Then Object : Fitting : Center Content. Do this for all 3 images that are missing. WORK : TEXT WORK : INTERACTIVE 11. Answer the questions. > See guidelines before the filler text begins. > Do your best to take up the amount of space as the filler text. FYI, the text that is presently holding the space is called Greeking or Lorem Ipsum. Also holding this space is a short explanation of what this is. > Be sure you have no widows (one word at the end of a paragraph). > Do a spell check. You will fail this project if there is a misspelling. Edit : Spelling : Check Spelling > Be sure your grammar is correct. Write like an educated university student. Poor writing skills will never be excused, regardless of your major. > A thesaurus is your friend. Use one. (in Dictionary app on computer or online) > Keep the Character and Paragraph settings. (Set up Character and Paragraph Styles for extra credit if you are familiar with these or feel like challenging yourself!) 12. Fill in your name on page 3 of the document. Keep it in all caps by doing manually or selecting All Caps in the Character palette. 13. Copy (Cmd + C) the address of your Behance web page. 14. Select the entire text on the third page of your document and go Window : Interactive : Hyperlinks. Paste in the URL of your Behance page. Be sure that a green circle appears instead of a red one, showing that the link is safe and to a public page. Check over all of your work, especially your answers on page 2. When you are ready to be finished with this file, create your Interactive PDF much the same way as a Print PDF.
15. File : Export. Name it YOUR LAST NAME_Proj3B_Fall17_Interactive.PDF. Save it to your desktop. Pull down the Format to Adobe PDF (Interactive) 16. Do the above under General. See Page Transitions! Export. 17. Open the file in Acrobat Reader and check it. 18. Load file to https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0b_pz7of1vmuba1fjc1lync 1ZOUE?usp=sharing PACKAGE FILE 19. Save file (though you should ve been saving all along). 20. File : Package > Check any warnings in the Summary. Your PSD files are RGB and this is ok. > There should be no warnings for missing links or fonts. Select Package. 21. Printing Instructions box will appear. Under Contact, type your full name. Under Email, type your email. Continue. 22. The name of the folder should default to the name of your file. Where: DESKTOP (This is easier to work with - you can move the file wherever once finished with it. However, remember every day when you leave the classroom computer to have moved all of our working files back to your external storage device. Working directly off of an external storage device just takes longer than working directly to files on a desktop.) 23. Have the following selected: Copy Fonts Copy Linked Images Update Graphic Links in Package Use Document Hyphenation Exceptions Only Do not check Include PDF 24. Select Package. Say OK to the default warning about copyright.
25. Save the file one more time and close it. Find the folder. Open the Links and Fonts folders to be sure all of the files you think should be there are indeed there. (Note: To REALLY check this in the future, the best way is to take the Packaged folder and go to another computer entirely. Load provided fonts and open the InDesign file. It shouldn t ask for anything else.) 26. Rename the folder as YOUR LAST NAME 3B Select this folder and Control to Compress the file. Upload this ZIP file to the same shared link as your interactive PDF. FULL PDF 1 27. Now combine all of the PDFs into one large file. Download all of your classmates PDFs to your desktop to one folder. 28. Open your PDF in Acrobat (not Acrobat Reader). 29. Esc to escape the full page display. On right of screen, select Organize Pages. 30. Select all of your classmates PDFs (not your own) and drag the PDF icons to Acrobat. The PDFs should populate the page. 31. File : Save As YOUR LAST NAME_Proj3B_Fall17_FULL.PDF 32. In top left of page, select Back to Document. 33. Close the document and then re-open it. In its full-page mode, all page transitions should work. Hyperlinks should work also, so check them. 34. Upload this file to the same link as earlier files. LECTURE COVER Fri Oct 6th: Introduction to Grid Theory (this will also review contents on the Design Blog and the required Thinking With Type readings), Controling Visual Hierarchy, review of typography readings. Begin sketches in class (see requirements below). Required information for cover in bold: 2413 Metaphoric Interpretations (can be all capitals or all lowercase or arranged in any way that is legible and makes sense for the purpose of this book s cover). It could be simple or complex. Control the read with visual hierarchy. Make it a pleasing read by using the grid as a skeleton > LINE THINGS UP. Pay attention to the font used on the inside text of this book, acknowledging that fonts used in artwork are now artwork with no consistency. But if the inside of the book is all a sans serif, would a serif italic title be good? Bad? Think about this. Remember that centering isn t bad, but it s boring. It is often not the best answer. (see next page)
A title doesn t have to be horizontal. Also the same title is repeated on every page in the book. Consider how your title will flow with this one. It doesn t need to repeat exactly, but it should ve completely divorce itself. Color is allowed, but not required. Think about the contents of the book. Want to include other copy like a verbal introduction to what s inside or a list of all the artists, then just let me know! SKETCHES 1 SKETCHES 2 CREATE At least 20 rough or tight thumbnail sketches to discuss. Do be sure they are created on a rectangle that is proportional to the final size of 10in x 10in. Discuss with Prof. Arnell DUE for discussion Mon Oct 9th, 1pm 5 ideas will picked and these will be rendered as very tight sketches, preferably in color. Draw sketches in a box that is proportional and no less than 4in x 4in. That means a square. If you hand elongated rectangles, I will tear up your thumbnails and have you start over completely. Tight sketch. If you need to trace things, then do that. Color sketches are suggested on ideas that will have color; however, do not combine bad colored pencils into something that looks like mud and then try to verbally explain it. Either render it well or keep it black and white with explanation and swatches of color next to the drawing. If you want to show images, you may draw the shape of it and either color with gray, draw an X, or roughly duplicate the image to be placed. If you know the artwork exists (like the original vector of the files placed on the merchandise on other students work), you can still design with it. You may attain the files from classmates when you begin to render the work. DUE for discussion Wed Oct 11th, 1pm Fri Oct 13th, 1pm Render artwork in either Illustrator or InDesign. (Photoshop may only be used if artwork is created. Never EVER create a PRINT layout in Photoshop.) SPECS (size spec ifications for file production): 10in x 10in Bleed optional A bleed means that color goes to the edge of the page. When a file is prepared, the color is pulled slightly beyond the edge of the page so that if it is cut even a millimeter off, the paper will not show. The color bleeds off the page. If a bleed were not optional on a page going to press, then you could not have any color touching the edges. ALSO if you were preparing a file that will print on a personal printer like the Phaser in the lab, bleeds are impossible. In fact, almost all of these printers require a margin because they cannot print to the edge of the page. CMYK (I realize your images are RGB, but don t worry for this project) 150 DPI (if using raster images) >> If creating in Illustrator, save it as whatever you would like. When finished, add a blank page at the beginning of your InDesign book you created, draw in image box, and place your artwork. Resave your InDesign document. >> If creating in InDesign, add a blank page at the beginning of your book and create there. Resave your InDesign document. I do not need this new InDesign file, though you should keep it for yourself. FULL PDF 2 Mon Oct 16th: Midway critique of cover artwork. Show up to class with cover image printed in color to review. Instructions reviewed for next steps. Begin Project 4.
1. File : Export your cover as Interactive PDF from InDesign the same as before (Page Transitions). 2. Then open the earlier PDF (YOUR LAST NAME_Proj3B_Fall17_FULL.PDF). Drag your cover PDF to the first page and resave. Close the file and then reopen it to check the file. No classes Wed Oct 18th or Fri Oct 20th. You should be finishing Project 3, beginning research on Project 4, and completing the midterm test over all of your readings. WHAT IS DUE All of Project 3 is DUE Mon Oct 23rd at 1pm. This means that all of the following are due in the same shared folder https://drive. google.com/drive/folders/0b_pz7of1vmuba1fjc1lync1zoue?usp=sharing: YOUR LAST NAME_Proj3A_Fall17.AI (please rename if you had another) YOUR LAST NAME_Proj3B_Fall17_Interactive.PDF YOUR LAST NAME_3B.ZIP (with the packaged file YOUR LAST NAME_ Proj3B_Fall17.indd before your cover page was added) YOUR LAST NAME_Proj3B_Fall17_FULL.PDF (with all students work and your cover, all as an interactive PDF) MATERIALS EVALUATION Pencil(s), eraser, sketchbook. You will be graded on the following for Project 3B: Directions were followed accurately with absolutely no errors. All rounds of sketches for cover complete and to quality expected. InDesign usage correct for template input. Interactive PDF page transitions and link work correctly in Acrobat. Explanation uses correct grammar and spelling. Explanation shows knowledge of design choices. Cover art displays proper visual hierarchy. Cover art displays knowledge of grid theory. Cover art expresses the book s contents in a dynamic and informative way. Full book PDF created correctly. Ambition - How much did you challenge yourself? Did you plan your time well? Participation in any midway critiques, online or in person.