The workshop was about Adobe InDesign and the development of the Helvetica lecture, using our hand rendered work making paper based typography that represented a re-imagining of the letters that contained the words 'hand gloves' or 'Helvetica.' Our creations were scanned and then put into a folder for us to use in this workshop.
In groups we were asked to create a cover and sample page spreads for a design publication, we started by working on paper creating sketches and drawings to work from when going to produce the work on InDesign. We were given specific dimensions to use for the publication and then used the scanned work from the seminar to create what we wanted. This helped us with the development of discussing design concepts in short spaces of time and practice quality artwork production on InDesign, I found this lecture useful as practice for working in industry as it gave us an idea of what it could be like to be presented with a brief and work within a time frame.
Publication specification:
Page dimensions - W 152.4mm x H 228.6mm
Spine - 7mm
Cover overall - W 311.8mm x H 228.6mm
Bleed - 3mm all round
Full colour cover artwork, minimum of five interior double page spreads - as PDF files with bleed and cropsTime allowed, 3 hours.
As a group we had to consider what everyones role was in putting the publication together: creating a name for the document, creating the front page or producing a specific style that could be used throughout the pages. Every member of the group designed a few pages each after thinking of the name for the Helvetica publication and then we put them all together to create the ones shown in the blog post.
