WEEK 3: The week of October 9th – October 13th

Magazine Brands: what's in/out of brand

In class:

In class exercise: Recognizing what's in/out of brand.

Spend 15 minutes looking at your magazine's mood board/opening spreads and answering the questions from the Recognizing Brand Checklist.pdf below.

Use These Files/Resources for Your In-Class Exercise:

Recognizing Brand Checklist.pdf

One you complete your brand check list, meet with your peer-to-peer feedback groups (and small crit groups with me: half the class). Use your Opening Spreads Checklist.pdf below to help guide your peer-to-peer feedback groups.

Use These Files/Resources for Your In-Class Exercise:

Opening Spreads Checklist.pdf

Homework:

Refine your opening spreads for your feature articles based off in class feedback. Begin laying out the features remaining portions for all 3 feature articles.

How To Files: Style Your Document
Chapter 1: Paragraph and Character Styles (Lynda.com)
Chapter 4: Applying a Style Sequence (Lynda.com)
Chapter 3: Using Styles (advanced Lynda.com)
Chapter 5: Object styles (Lynda.com)
Chapter 099: Placing an object where you want it with an object style (Lynda.com)

How To Files: Design Details
Chapter 5: Setting text inset and vertical justification (Lynda.com)
Chapter 13: Adding rule lines above/below a paragraph (Lynda.com)
Chapter 5: Applying and finessing text wraps (Lynda.com)
Chapter 030: Making Professional Drop Caps (Lynda.com)

Cheat Sheet for Drop Caps, Spacing, Rules, Keep Options from Adobe.com (site)
Cheat Sheet for Drop Caps and Nested Styles from Adobe.com (site)

Chapter 4: Advanced Text and Typography

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Indesign keyboard shortcuts (pdf file)
34 Typographic Sins (pdf file)