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76-480 Document Design


Units:12.0
Department:English
Prerequisites:51-261 or 51-262 or 76-270 or 76-271 or 76-371
Related URLs:http://hss.cmu.edu/HTML/departments/engl

This course will develop the student's ability to: 1. analyze levels of visual/verbal synergy in print 2. create levels of visual/verbal interaction (or synergy) in print 3. apply these levels of synergy to the appropriate rhetorical situations 4. use the related desktop applications. Lectures dealing with the composition of levels of synergy and their rhetorical usefulness will form the basis of your theoretical understanding of visual/verbal relationships in the document. Readings will also be assigned to build some of this foundational understanding. All project work will involve building some level of visual/verbal synergy that could be useful in a particular rhetorical situation, but design concerns will also include: 1. basic perceptual composition, 2. basic typography, 3. basic grid structure. Four applications will be taught in the lab and used to create the assigned projects. These are: 1. InDesign 2.0 2. Photoshop 7.0 3. Illustrator 10.0 4. PowerPoint We will also relate document design to its collaborative production process by discussing the importance of the printer/designer relationship, the project/paper relationship, and the design/pre-press relationship. Monday and Wednesday classes will be reserved for lecture and critique of work in progress. Friday classes will be reserved for hands-on training in the lab.

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  Spring 2005 times

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A 3:00 - 4:20 pm T Instructor TBA BH 237B Add course to my schedule
R Instructor TBA BH 237B
10:30 - 11:50 am F Instructor TBA TBA



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