p3 LA04 [Car Sales Ad using a Clipping Path]

Design Brief: 

You are to design, typeset and process car photos for a full colour, full-page tabloid (7 cols - 26.3cm x 38cm) newspaper ad using the copy and photos provided. To be produced in InDesign.

Company:      Quigley's Quality Car Market 

Address:        22 The Esplanade, Launceston 7250

Phone:          03 6333 2734

Tagline:         "If it's quality, it's a Quigley"

Headline:       Get a new car deal for a used car price

Copy:             (provided)
Sub header: 12-month warranty and roadside assistance included for the month of October only

p3 LA03 [Photography Booklet]

PART A: [Photography booklet, how-to guide]

Explore this website: http://digital-photography-school.com/digital-photography-composition-tips and adapt the photography information to create a user-friendly booklet for future reference. 

Choose 5 topics of interest.

The booklet should be a total/maximum of 8 pages, including images.

 

PART B: [Imposition]

The term 'imposition' is a printing technique, whereby pages of a publication are placed in a certain sequence ready for printing. Once these pages are printed, they are folded for binding and are in the correct order for reading.

The next stage, turning my 8-page booklet into an 8-page imposition 

[front] A4 page

[back] A4 page

p3 LA02 - The Graphic Design Process

Learning Activity

Design my own version of a 'Graphic Design Process Map'.

t3 #04 [Interactive Photobook]

The Brief:

1. Using a digital camera, take four [4] photos of the same object from different angles. Save each file using standard naming conventions. In a Work document make note of each image file's metadata/tags.
2. Using a scanner, scan an original image three [3] ways [one colour at 300dpi, one greyscale at 300dpi and one lineart at 1200dpi]. Save each file using standard naming conventions. In a Word document, make note of each image file's metadata/tags.
3. Using Photoshop to combine the above in steps [1] and [2] in one [1] image file, in a way that shows you have an understanding of visual design and communication principles, e.g. a collage.
4. Finally, create a Photobook, using InDesign or Illustrator, showing all of the above images as well as displaying a record of the metadata settings on the page.

• Size of the Photobook is up to you. It should be a single-page book.
• Include a Title Page at start of document and then one page per image.
• The total amount of pages for this Photobook is nine [9].
• Export Photobook to PDF.
• Open PDF and include a navigation system of Bookmarks and include any other interactive features to make searching within the document easier.
• Test that it all works.

 

*N.B size of book = 8.25" x 8.25"

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. 

t3 Assessment #02 [Drawing with Type]

The Brief

• Using Adobe Illustrator, demonstrate your understanding of type-on-a-path, you are required to draw an illustration relating to a famous speech or nursery rhyme.
• If you find a speech online, you may have to cut it short to around 50-100 words max.
• Draw or illustrate a simple figure relating to the speech/nursery rhyme.
• Draw digitally or on paper and then scan in, you will then create text to go on the lines of the drawing.
• Completed work should be text only and in black ink only [no colour or lines, no pictures].
• Save your Illustrator file then Export to PDF for presentation.
• Final image size - A4 landscape

t3 Assessment #01 [Photo Word]

The Brief

• Photograph alphabetical shapes that make up a word (minimum of five [5] letters).
• DO NOT photograph people forming the letter, spaghetti or other flexible substances formed into letter or other similar 'cop-outs'.
• DO NOT photograph existing letters and avoid the obvious.
• Also, try to make the letters relate to the word, e.g. "Nature" photograph natural objects; "Gothic" take shots in a cathedral or church; "Cracks" maybe in the concrete pavements or walls.
• If there are two letters the same in the word, you must have two different photographs.
• All letters can be cropped if you wish.
• Convert image from RGB to CMYK.
• All images are your own.
• Combine all letter images into one final image size - 800 pixels wide (height in proportion) 150 dpi Resolution, saved as a JPEG image.

I've also uploaded a Black & White one to see the contrast ...