During my first workshop with Rob, we ran over InDesign and its uses. I have already done two years worth of Graphic Design so I had a very good idea of how to use the programme already. We started with arrangement of text, using columns, and settings to justify the text with the last line aligned left. As you can see, the top screenshot shows a placement of text into two columns, on both pages, however the lines are not justified, and hyphens are still being used to show the break up of words. This does not look as clean, and professional as the screenshot underneath, presenting lines of the same length.
We also we formatted the crop marks and the bleed to accommodate the page for printing. The next task was to recreate a german magazine cover created by a designer that produces a series using the same style. This work was not saved unfortunately but I used grids, text and shapes to recreate the cover from scratch.
From practicing with shape, alignment and placement, we were given a piece of independent work to complete; this was to design a poster which is a typographic expression of my personal, creative manifesto. The emphasis should be in the communication of language, using type, shape and colour in a manner which magnifies the meaning within my words. I started out by producing a few of my own manifestos, shown above on the left. I selected my favourite, and creating the poster on the left in InDesign. The coloured circles represent different opinions gathered together, whether they are big and important, or small and less important, they are all shown and all work together.
