Today we jumped right into InDesign and exploring the program throughout class. We were given a couple of different bodys of text to place within a document and design what you thought was appropriate for what we were placing. Some copy that we were placing included recipes, a paragraph, a play script, and a short essay.
After about thirty minutes of creating what we could within the time frame we had a short discussion/critique about our experience and outcomes. Some points we made:
- appropriate usage of the type. Some designs felt more poster like (including mine) rather than something to be read within your hand at a appropriate distance from your face.
-many aspects to the design helped with syntax or helped with the readability.
-the use of grids help develop a systematically way of designing and reading
-setting text on a page is not easy
other things to explore for our later homework:
-the length of a line of text, the spacing/leading of the lines.
-different levels of variation for hierarchy
-creating a grid and following your grid
-what is an appropiate folio?
I feel like all the points made during our discussion was very valid, but I couldn't help but think how boring it is to set text. It seems like i'm designing for a text book, or at least that might be what we are going to be doing for the next couple of weeks. I hate to say but I don't look forward to this. :/ We'll see when we design for homework for Thursday. We are to come to class with our studies based off critique today and bring our grid as well.
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