It addresses the development of advanced computer skills in image scanning, technology, desktop publishing, pre-press production, color, output technology, and digital photgraphic technologies. Special attention is given to comparative study of output technologies and the translation of the onscreen image to offset lithography. Technical expertise and efficient working methodologies are applied to problems which are brought in to the class from other design courses as well as from both individual and group assigned projects. All software is standard to current graphic design industry practices. Directed research based upon typographic norms addresses the issues of hierarchies achievable through visual frm and structure as well as the editorial and expressive potentials of typography.
Coursework uses traditional and digital technologies.
Students must have a working knowledge of QuarkXPRess and basic Macintosh operation or be concurrently enrolled in EM 202. Working knowledge of Adobe Illustrator is preferred. Junior status in the Graphic Design department, or permission of the instructor by portfolio review and interview. The typographic principles of the grid, text typography, text hierarchies, image integration, all within the context of a multi-page format. Students must have a working knowledge of QuarkXPress and basic Macintosh operation or be concurrently enrolled in EM 203.