Library
Internet access
Macintosh G5s (graphics studio)
Software: Quark Xpress, Indesign
Black and White A3 printer (graphics studio)
Specialist Skills `modulettes' will be assigned to this module; Advanced Quark Xpress, Advanced Indesign. A comprehensive list of all modulettes is available from the Faculty Office.

Art directors Hand Book of Professional Magazine Design. Thames and Hudson 2003
Heller, S. Merz to Emigre and Beyond: Progressive Magazine Design in the Twentieth
Century. Phaidon 2001
Leslie,J. Magculture. Laurence King 2003
Roberts, L. & Thrift, J. The Designer and The Grid. RotoVision 2005
Niggli,J. Grid systems in graphic design: 4th Edition. Muller-Brockmann 1996
SND Annuals

Web sites:
The Society of Newspaper design www.snd.org
The Society of Publication Designers www.spd.org

A range of studio based project work will provide the framework through which learning will take place; it will integrate the practical with the theoretical and the technical aspects of grid systems, page layout and hierarchy of editorial content.
Studio work will be supported by introductory lectures and seminars; work in progress will be monitored through group tutorials and critiques.
Insight into the production of a major publication will be achieved through an organised field trip.
Group instruction in advanced page layout software; Quark Xpress, Indesign and Illustrator

This module you will enable you to explore the ways in which grid systems, type, image, layout and the hierarchy of all editorial content effects the tone and expresses the personality of a publication
You will be required to consider the relationship between all of these elements and the execution of both experimental layouts and the legibility of pages.
Through your research you will be required to examine current trends as well as the traditional design of the following applications: books, magazines, newspapers, brochures; their content and form.
Through set projects you will design and develop complex page structures for a variety of publications aimed at different audiences.

Assessment Code/s: coursework Art and Design weighted at 100%

At the end of this module you will submit a body of work as outlined in the module handbook.
This will include a research file containing appropriate annotated research into historical and contemporary illustration, specifically examples of visual storytelling. (Learning Outcome: 1) Sketchbooks; containing experimentation with a variety of media and illustration techniques. Using sketchbooks and a layout pads you will develop a range of possible solutions through rough visuals demonstrating creative thinking and the ability to solve visual storytelling problems. Initial ideas will be developed to produce finished illustrations using appropriate media. (Learning outcomes 2,3)