EDLD5366+Graphic+Design

EDLS5366 - Graphic Design and Desktop Publishing

Newsletter Instructions: Week 3-5 Assignment ** Begin newsletter assignment in Week 3 Submit newsletter in Week 5 Instructions: design and produce a four-page newsletter for your school. Each page should be standard 8.5”x11”. The pages must be numbered and show a consistent design theme throughout. You must design your newsletter with columns, but the shape and size of these columns is up to you. The first page should look like a first page and contain the date and issue number of the newsletter. You must use your logo, and the newsletter needs to contain the standard vital information. Overall, your newsletter will look professional, be a business-like representation of your school, and convey information in an interesting manner. You will need to write the copy for the newsletter. Think of what kind of stories or information you want in your newsletter and then produce it. I will not grade the content of these stories. You might want to include some stories that you have copied from another publication. I want you to work with real text, but I am more interested in the design of the newsletter than with actual content, except insofar as the content affects the design. If a story is too long for one page, you should jump it to an inside page. You must clearly mark the jumped copy. Each separate story should be headlined. One of your design problems is choosing appropriate headline styles. The newsletter should include photographs. A photograph can function as a dominant graphic. Each photograph must have a cutline identifying people and events. Each page needs a dominant graphic. Basic design principles should be followed—contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity—and each page should present a graphically pleasing layout. Pay particular attention to how your columns abut one another, and avoid creating a situation where you have two headlines running into one another. Use rules (lines) to achieve a pleasing harmony of parts. The newsletter should serve an obvious function. I assume you have information you want to convey about your company. The manner in which you present this information gives me visual clues about how I should react to it. Your essential design problem is to create a layout that provokes the appropriate response. The newsletter should contain contact information. To make this daunting project simpler, collect two or three newsletters and examine them. See how they are put together. Analyze and imitate their  design principles. 
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 * Four page newsletter **