Final Project Assignment Brief
The basic idea is you are making a little designed booklet that shows off the pictures you should have already taken, 4 or more photos for each element of design.
This booklet will demonstrate your own personal perspective on each “element of design” AND also demonstrate that you have a basic comfort-ability with the skills tied to this type of design work.
The design project includes some “design for web” tasks but mostly this is a summative application of various InDesign tasks you may have already completed. Referenced below, “the multi-state” just means that the pictures themselves are click-through-able on the page they are on.
Create a new document.
The New document creator options should be
–made for web, 7 pages, no facing pages. (this is the cover page & 6 element pages)
1024 x 768 px
- Requirements: Submit your Indesign file (indd) and ePub format (2 files total).
- In the InDesign file I should see: 2 master pages, NAV master that holds your navigation and Grid master based on the NAV master that holds your frames for text and images;
- Name on the cover or first page, titled My Elements of Design;
- images* (your own from the Elements of Design assignment in the beginning of the course), definition and commentary or narrative (your own words about the element or finding the element) of the 6 elements studied during class period;
- Each text area should have one part for element name and the other for definition and narrative or commentary (a few sentences or paragraphs)
- You can choose one of three options or if InDesign is really working for you, you could explore two or all three:
- page navigation buttons that work throughout the document, probably on the bottom right or bottom middle of page(go to first page, previous page, next page and last page)
- 1 animations of your choice on the title page OR 6 animations, one on each element page visualizing the element
- multi-state of images on each element page; this means the 4 images total per element page would be “clickable” to the user.
Your book should have a grid system applied to bring differing elements together and use paragraph styles (on your element names and body copy for definition and your commentary) and object styles if you choose.
*ALL IMAGES MUST BE ORIGINAL, made by you. Clip art, stock images or anything else made by someone else or taken from the internet are not acceptable and is really plagiarism. Please try to avoid even self-plagiarism (aka re-using work from other tasks or classes).