Week 7...InDesign

This past week in class we began working with type in Illustrator and InDesign. We learned various ways to format type and how to place type on paths and within shapes. Our third assignment consists of two parts once again. The first piece of work is bound by certain guidelines, including how many scanned images or textures we must incorporate, the color of typeface that we can use and the number of sizes and fonts of a specific typeface that we must use. The second project also involves using one typeface; however we are not limited in the number of scanned textural images that we can use, and there are no restrictions on colors or number of different sizes of type that we need to use.

Prior to class on Thursday, I spent some time working in Illustrator trying to start my first project. Honestly, I had a creative block. I think that I was a bit frustrated with the guidelines for the first project. I feel like incorporating five different sizes of one typeface as well as bold and italic fonts will be a challlenge.

I hope that for our next assignment we will learn more about InDesign because I am really interested in understanding how to set up a webpage or create something like a magazine or newsletter.