Today’s Plan:
- Reviewing Sketches
- Converting Your Sketches into an InDesign Document
- LAST FIVE MINUTES: Homework
Reviewing Sketches
I’ll be coming around today to take a look at sketches and ask/answer questions about your design.
Converting Your Sketches into an InDesign Document
In class today, I’d like you to work on developing one of your sketches into InDesign. You are free to develop either a landscape or portrait menu, but I’d like you to include the following:
- I want you to use all the content in the Google Doc in your menu. I think a challenge of this design is using typography and layout to fit this much content
- I’d like you to include at least 3 pictures of food in your document
- I’d like you to really highlight and sell some chicken wings–and remind everyone that those wings are Erin’s Secret Recipe
Homework
I’d like to take the last five minutes of class to talk about the homework / schedule. I have an idea in mind, but I’d like to see where y’all are at.
My idea is to have a draft of the menu due Wednesday. In class on Wednesday, I’d go over typography in InDesign. Then, on Friday, I’d assign the Classroom in a Book Lesson on Objects in InDesign (which you can come and do in class, and I can help, or you can do from home/computer lab later). The final menu would be due before Monday’s class. Given the amount of typographic formatting this project requires, I want to make sure that this timeline is realistic.
I’ve heard from both Michael Mayer and from Dr. Brownlee on poster projects, so our mini-project next week will be on developing a promotional poster in InDesign.
