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Fall 2014 – 3 – The Principles of Design

Today we are going to start learning about the Principles of Design. Specifically, we will be studying four major principles that will help everything you create look better and will help you to identify how to improve your own creations and the creations of others.
Objective:
Students will identify and explain the Principles of Design, and effectively identify when these principles are (or are not) being used in a published work.
 
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Topics Discussed:

  • Principles of Design
  • Contrast
  • Repetition
  • Alignment
  • Proximity
Assignment:

  1. Visit the Student Pickup Folder on StudentsTempFiles and open “3 – Design Principles”
  2. Read “1 – README – The Joshua Tree Epiphany” silently while I read aloud in class.
  3. Read the rest of the document that introduces the principles of design.
  4. Create a new InDesign document with the default settings, and using complete sentences, answer the questions in the “Design Principles 2013-14 – The Joshua Epiphany.pdf” document.
Assigned: September 2nd, 2014
Due Date: September 2nd, 2014

Fall 2014 – 2 – Student Profile 2014

Objective: Students will use will use all of the skills they have acquired in the previous week’s lessons to produce a document that represents them and their goals.
 
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Topics Discussed:

  • InDesign Page Layout
  • Default Settings
  • Pages Palette
  • Layers Palette
  • Links Palette
  • Stroke Palette
  • Color Palette
  • Swatches Palette
  • Fill
  • Stroke
  • Type Tool
  • Type on a Path Tool
  • Character Palette
  • Character Formatting Controls
  • Paragraph Formatting Controls
  • Font
  • Leading
  • Kerning
  • Tracking
  • Vertical Scale
  • Horizontal Scale
  • Baseline
  • Baseline Shift
  • Skew
  • Alignment (Left, Right, Center, Justified)
  • Indent
  • Drop Cap
Assignment:

  1. Visit StudentsTempFiles and open “2 – Student Profile.pdf” in the Student Pickup Folder for the assignment instructions.
Assigned: August 25th, 2014
Due Date: August 27th, 2014