Dr. Bill Williamson | Professor of Technical Communication | SVSU

RPW 233 Emerging Media: Information Design

Workshop / Working with Adobe InDesign

This workshop supports the journey to understanding information design for pages and screens. During the workshop, you will use the content you created for the Document Design workshop and the design specifications from that same assignment to recreate your profile in Adobe InDesign.

Workshop Objectives

Submission Checklist

Workshop Details

This workshop requires you to examine a document to recreate the profile document that you created using Microsoft Word during the first workshop. Drawing on the same content and design specifications, and using the sample document as a model, reproduce the profile using Adobe InDesign.

Refer back to the assignment description and supporting documents for the Document Design workshop as you complete this assignment. The only difference between the two workshops is the tool you use to complete the design process.

Craft a Summary Report

Reflect upon the process. Craft a 200-word summary report directly in the Canvas Discussion forum for the workshop. Organize your report into two roughly equal sections.

Submission Guidelines

Post your summary report to the forum dedicated to this workshop on Canvas Discussions. Attach the PDF of the InDesign version of the profile.

In the Workshops folder on your shared Dropbox space, post the following documents: the profile in the native work file format (i.e., INDD for InDesign); the PDF version of the profile (i.e., .PDF).

Label the files using the following format: Lastname-ProfileV2.INDD; Lastname-ProfileV2.PDF.

Evaluation Standards

This section describes the standards by which your work will be evaluated for this workshop. Attend carefully to these details. If you do so, you will earn full credit for the workshop.

Evaluation Summary

There are 50 possible points for this workshop. You will earn points according to this standard.

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