t3 Assessment #03 [Magazine]

The Brief:

Produce a magazine-style *article on the use of Adobe software and present a series of two page #spreads using InDesign

• Name of magazine: 'Adobe Plus'
• Magazine content can either be your own or copied from elsewhere. If copied it must be clearly referenced in your checklist.
• Final trimmed page size is to be 180mm x 250mm per page.
• Apply a 3mm bleed if your design requires it.
• Export as prepress PDF with all printer marks and bleed area.
• Export as prepress PDF without printer marks and bleeds, the PDF needs to include Bookmarks of important pages. Test.

Content

Your final article must show mini tutorials, including screenshots of ALL of the following:

1. Rulers and Grids.
2. Adjusting, colouring and copying images.
3. Gradient fills, mesh and patterns.
4. Move, scale, rotate, reflect, shear and distort.
5. Type on a path.
6. Wrapped type.
7. Layers.

*A hardcopy magazine publication bought at a newsagent, with page numbers & barcode on front.

#One spread=2 pages. Your design will be a minimum of 4 pages.

Note - This Assessment Task requires an understanding of Adobe Software which used so far 0 InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat. You may choose all three or may just focus on one, e.g. Illustrator only for your tutorial article.