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 end of the design process.
This course is part of the program Design Essentials, which leads to a full-time Management Certificate, offered at BCIT in Burnaby/Vancouver, BC, Canada. This program is part of the Digital Arts department.
The Design Essentials program partners BCIT with Emily Carr University to offer qualifying students a foundation in the key elements of creative thinking along with a solid foundation in practical design skills, desktop publishing and web software skills. Design Essentials would be beneficial to budding designers, design department managers, graphic artists, art students, media companies, commercial printers, web developers and corporate executives who currently purchase graphic design services.
