About MDIA 1069 - Layout & Adobe InDesign

With Adobe InDesign students will create designs using tools that enable free-flowing expression with fine control over graphics, typography, color, transparency, effects and placed images. The course will concentrate on InDesign’s graphic user interface, page layout and design and InDesign’s typographic features. The course will cover the anatomy of type, serif and sans serif fonts, OpenType and Glyph characters and design and layout principles including; InDesign grids, columns, balanced ragged settings, image placement, white space and overall page design. Students will also learn how to catch production errors as they design with real-time pre-flighting instead of flagging them at the endjavascript:void(0) of the design process.