http://www.arras.net/stockton
Trade paperback size: 4.25 x 6.875
Margins
Gutters
One serif font and one sans-serif font
Set the hyphenation
Instances of tracking
Instances of leading
Distinct chapter headings
60 pages in length
Front matter
Page numbers and headers
Find an illustration
Colophon
Friday, January 26, 2007
Monday, January 22, 2007
Stylesheet for Scarlet Pimpernel
Margins:
Left, right, top: 1 inche
Bottom 1.5 inches
Main typeface:
Choose something attractive to you
Page numbers:
Your choice, but use different typeface than text
Chapters:
Each to start on new page; use clear chapter headings
Title page:
Make it nice looking, with author’s name
Gutters:
Margins on interior pages that are a little larger than outside margins
Headers:
Where the name of the book and/or author appear
Page size:
Height: 9”
Width: 6”
Left, right, top: 1 inche
Bottom 1.5 inches
Main typeface:
Choose something attractive to you
Page numbers:
Your choice, but use different typeface than text
Chapters:
Each to start on new page; use clear chapter headings
Title page:
Make it nice looking, with author’s name
Gutters:
Margins on interior pages that are a little larger than outside margins
Headers:
Where the name of the book and/or author appear
Page size:
Height: 9”
Width: 6”
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Schedule
January
Wed., 17: Introduction / assign the editing assignments
Fri., 19: Set up blogs or websites
Monday, 22: Thinking with Type, first half / typesetting on Word
Wed., 24: Thinking with Type, second half / typesetting on Word
Fri., 26: Thinking with Type / typesetting on Word
Monday, 29: test on vocabulary /book analysis due / Introduction to Fireworks
Wed., 31: Introduction to Fireworks
February
Fri., 2: Fireworks (assign CD cover project)
Monday, 5: Fireworks
Wed., 7: Fireworks (in-class 6-word story project)
Fri., 9: Lulu book exercise due (typeset projects and book covers)
Monday, 12: Hypertext literature review (Jackson / Moulthrop / Memmott)
Wed., 14: Hypertext literature review
Fri., 16: Hypertext literature review
Monday, 19: President’s Day
Wed., 21: Hypertext literature review and exercises
Fri., 23: Introduction to Dreamweaver
Monday, 26: Dreamweaver / creative writing of Dreamweaver project due
Wed., 28: Dreamweaver
March
Fri., 2: Dreamweaver
Monday, 5: Dreamweaver / website analysis due
Wed., 7: Dreamweaver (in-class assignment)
Fri., 9: Dreamweaver (final review before break)
Monday, 12: Spring Break
Wed., 14: Spring Break
Fri., 16: Spring Break
Monday, 19: Dreamweaver presentation of final projects
Wed., 21: Dreamweaver presentation of final projects
Fri., 23: Introduction to Flash
Monday, 26: Flash
Wed., 28: Flash
Fri., 30: Flash (assign animated poem project)
April
Monday, 2: Flash (animated poem project due)
Wed., 4: Preceptorial Advising
Fri., 6: Flash
Monday, 9: Flash (animated 6 word story due)
Wed., 11: Flash
Fri., 13: Flash
Monday, 16: Flash / website analysis due
Wed., 18: Flash
Fri., 20: Flash
Monday, 23: Flash presentations of final projects
Wed., 25: Flash presentations of final projects
Fri., 27: Flash presentations of final projects
Monday, 30: Wrap-up
Wed., 17: Introduction / assign the editing assignments
Fri., 19: Set up blogs or websites
Monday, 22: Thinking with Type, first half / typesetting on Word
Wed., 24: Thinking with Type, second half / typesetting on Word
Fri., 26: Thinking with Type / typesetting on Word
Monday, 29: test on vocabulary /book analysis due / Introduction to Fireworks
Wed., 31: Introduction to Fireworks
February
Fri., 2: Fireworks (assign CD cover project)
Monday, 5: Fireworks
Wed., 7: Fireworks (in-class 6-word story project)
Fri., 9: Lulu book exercise due (typeset projects and book covers)
Monday, 12: Hypertext literature review (Jackson / Moulthrop / Memmott)
Wed., 14: Hypertext literature review
Fri., 16: Hypertext literature review
Monday, 19: President’s Day
Wed., 21: Hypertext literature review and exercises
Fri., 23: Introduction to Dreamweaver
Monday, 26: Dreamweaver / creative writing of Dreamweaver project due
Wed., 28: Dreamweaver
March
Fri., 2: Dreamweaver
Monday, 5: Dreamweaver / website analysis due
Wed., 7: Dreamweaver (in-class assignment)
Fri., 9: Dreamweaver (final review before break)
Monday, 12: Spring Break
Wed., 14: Spring Break
Fri., 16: Spring Break
Monday, 19: Dreamweaver presentation of final projects
Wed., 21: Dreamweaver presentation of final projects
Fri., 23: Introduction to Flash
Monday, 26: Flash
Wed., 28: Flash
Fri., 30: Flash (assign animated poem project)
April
Monday, 2: Flash (animated poem project due)
Wed., 4: Preceptorial Advising
Fri., 6: Flash
Monday, 9: Flash (animated 6 word story due)
Wed., 11: Flash
Fri., 13: Flash
Monday, 16: Flash / website analysis due
Wed., 18: Flash
Fri., 20: Flash
Monday, 23: Flash presentations of final projects
Wed., 25: Flash presentations of final projects
Fri., 27: Flash presentations of final projects
Monday, 30: Wrap-up
Required Books
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press; 1 edition
ISBN: 1568984480
Price: $19.95
Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash 8 in 24 Hours
Publisher: Sams; 3Rev Ed edition
ISBN-10: 0672327546
ISBN-13: 978-0672327544
How to Use Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 and Fireworks 8
Publisher: Sams; 2nd edition
ISBN: 0672327503
Price: $29.99
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press; 1 edition
ISBN: 1568984480
Price: $19.95
Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash 8 in 24 Hours
Publisher: Sams; 3Rev Ed edition
ISBN-10: 0672327546
ISBN-13: 978-0672327544
How to Use Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 and Fireworks 8
Publisher: Sams; 2nd edition
ISBN: 0672327503
Price: $29.99
Class Policies
Grading
Grading will primarily be based on your creative assignments and evaluations of your progress in mastering the software.
• 60% creative assignments
• 20% written analyses
• 20% tests and in-class assignments
Attendance
If you are more than ten minutes late, you will be considered late. Two lates equal an absence. Four absences result in a full letter reduction in your grade. More than that and you could be considered for a failing grade. For excused absences, I would like print documentation that I can keep (xerox of doctor report, etc).
You are expected to be quiet and attentive in class. If you are sleeping, typing on your cell phone, giggling and chatting, etc. this will count against you in the final grade.
Plagiarism
You will fail if caught plagiarizing.
Late papers and assignments
For every week an assignment is late, it is worth a full grade less.
Format style
All papers should be in 12 point type (in Times Roman or similar font with serifs) with 1.5 spac-ing and 1 inch margins. They will be marked down if not in this format.
Assignments
Assignments are primarily geared toward proving that you have acquired some technical achievement in the software packages we will be covering. They will be described during the se-mester.
Early in the semester, you will be required to edit a short book and typeset it. You can collect in-formation from the internet or you can use your own material if you happen to be a creative writer of some nature. The material should equal roughly 96 pages of material (I’m not sure if Lulu will accept a smaller amount). You will create a cover for this material and create an order at Lulu, though you don’t have to buy it. This project will be graded on:
• cover design
• cleanliness of typesetting
• general quality of concept and editing
Later in the semester, we will do an exercise in creative hypertext. Hypertext fictions are like “choose your own adventure” type stories. You will be required to write a short one and illus-trate it in Dreamweaver, including basic illustration. This assignment will be graded on:
• quality of interaction
• use of graphics to enhance literary experience
• quality of writing
For your final project, you will take either the material you collected for you edited Lulu book or for your hypertext creative project and create an interactive Flash application for it. The Flash project will be evaluated on the following:
• use of mulitmedia elements such as sound and video
• appropriateness of interface
• general use of design principles, including issues of legibility
Other assignments related to the projects above will be assigned throughout the semester. Some of these assignments will include
• recreate a CD cover from a book of covers that is found on reserve in the library
• write and illustrate a “6-word short story”
• animate a short poem of your own or someone else’s in Flash
Writing Analysis
Three short analysis papers will be due during the semester. These will include technical descrip-tions of the objects being written about – a book, a website and a Flash site – as well as evaluative elements such as success of the site and points where it could be improved. These papers are from 3-4 pages long and should be formatted as outlined above. These assignments will be graded on style, grammar, etc. so put some time into them.
Grading will primarily be based on your creative assignments and evaluations of your progress in mastering the software.
• 60% creative assignments
• 20% written analyses
• 20% tests and in-class assignments
Attendance
If you are more than ten minutes late, you will be considered late. Two lates equal an absence. Four absences result in a full letter reduction in your grade. More than that and you could be considered for a failing grade. For excused absences, I would like print documentation that I can keep (xerox of doctor report, etc).
You are expected to be quiet and attentive in class. If you are sleeping, typing on your cell phone, giggling and chatting, etc. this will count against you in the final grade.
Plagiarism
You will fail if caught plagiarizing.
Late papers and assignments
For every week an assignment is late, it is worth a full grade less.
Format style
All papers should be in 12 point type (in Times Roman or similar font with serifs) with 1.5 spac-ing and 1 inch margins. They will be marked down if not in this format.
Assignments
Assignments are primarily geared toward proving that you have acquired some technical achievement in the software packages we will be covering. They will be described during the se-mester.
Early in the semester, you will be required to edit a short book and typeset it. You can collect in-formation from the internet or you can use your own material if you happen to be a creative writer of some nature. The material should equal roughly 96 pages of material (I’m not sure if Lulu will accept a smaller amount). You will create a cover for this material and create an order at Lulu, though you don’t have to buy it. This project will be graded on:
• cover design
• cleanliness of typesetting
• general quality of concept and editing
Later in the semester, we will do an exercise in creative hypertext. Hypertext fictions are like “choose your own adventure” type stories. You will be required to write a short one and illus-trate it in Dreamweaver, including basic illustration. This assignment will be graded on:
• quality of interaction
• use of graphics to enhance literary experience
• quality of writing
For your final project, you will take either the material you collected for you edited Lulu book or for your hypertext creative project and create an interactive Flash application for it. The Flash project will be evaluated on the following:
• use of mulitmedia elements such as sound and video
• appropriateness of interface
• general use of design principles, including issues of legibility
Other assignments related to the projects above will be assigned throughout the semester. Some of these assignments will include
• recreate a CD cover from a book of covers that is found on reserve in the library
• write and illustrate a “6-word short story”
• animate a short poem of your own or someone else’s in Flash
Writing Analysis
Three short analysis papers will be due during the semester. These will include technical descrip-tions of the objects being written about – a book, a website and a Flash site – as well as evaluative elements such as success of the site and points where it could be improved. These papers are from 3-4 pages long and should be formatted as outlined above. These assignments will be graded on style, grammar, etc. so put some time into them.
Friday, January 12, 2007
Introduction
The goals of this class are to provide students with basic skills in the arts of typesetting and de-sign, both for the print and the web. Students will start by learning the language of typesetting and considering issues of “thinking through type.” We will discuss type designs that work and don’t work, and will do exercises in typesetting in both Microsoft Word and Fireworks. We will then move on to web design and Flash, and consider issues regarding information structure. The first half of the class will be almost entirely concerned with the book, the second with the web. Students will learn the rudiments of editing, and also explore some issues of creative hypertext. Students will also set up their own websites and learn how to upload their final projects to the sites.
By the end of this class, students will have:
• designed a book cover
• edited a short book of original or collected writing with images and uploaded it to Lulu
• written or edited a short hypertext piece for Dreamweaver
• converted all or part of that hypertext piece to Flash
• learned how to FTP their materials to a class website
By the end of this class, students will have:
• designed a book cover
• edited a short book of original or collected writing with images and uploaded it to Lulu
• written or edited a short hypertext piece for Dreamweaver
• converted all or part of that hypertext piece to Flash
• learned how to FTP their materials to a class website
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