Design for Print Masterclass

Delivery method
Classroom based, maximum 5 delegates

Course description
[b]What is design?[/b]
• Good and bad design
• Five questions to ask before you design anything

[b]Key design elements[/b]
• A guide to relevance, contrast, proportion, consistency, direction, totality and restraint
• The five building blocks of design

[b]Laying out your page[/b]
• Using the page organisation tools
• Using the text organisation tools

[b]Working with tone and space[/b]
• Using white space
• Rules, borders, boxes and drop shadows
• Creating bleeds

[b]The power of type[/b]
• Type history and type decisions
• Type families
• Typographical ground rules
• Tips and techniques for presenting type
• Special type effects
• Widows and orphans

Suitable for
A course for those who wish to improve their skill and confidence when designing documents or making design decisions but who have had no formal design training.

Requirements
You should have a basic knowledge of QuarkXpress or Adobe InDesign.