Book Arts, Graphic Design and Photography

Once you explore all of the characters in your favorite type face or font, you may want to see what else is hidden in the keyboard map for the font. For example, how many times have you wondered were the © symbol is located, or where the ® symbol for registered product names? Better yet, you may have the need to check out the full keyboard map for a glyph or symbol font like Zapf Dingbats or Carta. Glyph fonts like these are  only a few of the available fonts to you in the lab. Alternative type characters or glyphs can be hard to find. Luckily inside of InDesign and Illustrator you can easily find a map of the keyboard layout. InDesign’s Glyph menu can be found by going to the top menu bar > find Window> scroll down to Type & Tables > then down to Glyphs. A window like the one above will appear. Select the font you want to see by clicking on the small arrow that is circled in red.

Danika Morphew-Tarbuck gave a demo to the class to teach us how to sew a leather wrapper around two signatures of drawing paper. Below is a photo of a sample that she created.

Danika used leather from a purse that she bought at a thrift store to use as the cover. Heavy weight drawing paper was used for the journal pages. She said sewing is easier if you use waxed linen thread. You will need two needles to sew this book.

Step by step photos can be seen by going to the Read more >. Read more…

In class, we discussed using Adobe CS3 Automated Web gallery creator script in Photoshop and Bridge. As I mentioned, you can use many programs to automatically generate web galleries from your image files. In my next post, I will list other programs. A program that I have been using for over a year is Adobe Lightroom. By far, this is one of the fastest ways to generate web galleries. Last week Adobe release a free Beta version to Lightroom version 2. You can download a copy from this link. You will need to create an account and agree to license terms. Once you do, you will see a link for a copy of the beta for Macintosh and for Windows machines. You may not have interest in the digital photo processing procedures of Adobe Lightroom, but while the Beta version is operational, you will have some very attractive web templates, that can be created easily. Let me know if you have questions or problems with the download or install.

These photos illustrate how to set up your web space at the School of Education web space. Check your email for the url, user name and password.

Step one – Load Dreamweaver and go to the Site menu and scroll down to the new site selection.

Step two – You can title your site any name that you like. This is simply the file name, it is not the web site name. Type in the web address that is in your email where it says “What is the HTTP address of your site?” Select “Next”

Step three – Select no for using server technology and then Select “Next” at the bottom of the window. Select “Next” at the bottom of the window.

Step four – Select “Edit Local copies on my machine” for this step. The second window is asking you for a location on your computer to store your files. Click on the folder icon that is located on the right side of the window and navigate to a location of your choice. Select “Next” at the bottom of the window.

Step five – Fill in these sections with your information. In the top window select FTP as your choice. Use the user name and pass word that was given to you, not your UW net id. You can hit the “Test connection” button to see if it connects with the server. Then Select “Next” at the bottom of the window.

Step six – Selected “No, do not enable check in and check out”. Select “Next” at the bottom of the window.

Step seven – Select done.

Domain name registration and design.
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We discussed many things in class today. If you took notes you will see that this week end can be a busy one for you.

1 – please explore typographic treatments for your domain name. After class I went to google and I typed in the search field “design blog”. You should do the same and surf around looking at as many design related sites as you can find to get a feeling for type treatments and for the types of names other designers are using. Keep a list of the urls that you visit and be prepared to share them. You can pull them up on the computers in class.

2 – Are you familiar with excel? I suggest you start a new file and call it something like “computer workstation costs.” On one column, start listing all the hardware that you have or hardware that you wish to purchase in order to have a design workstation. Then list the software. Gather prices. Do not use DoIT’s site for pricing as those prices are student prices. In this excel sheet add the cost of buying a domain name and a basic hosting service package with the name of the company.

3 – did I forgot anything?Have a good weekend – Jim

We will design a printed glossary of digital terms.

Yesterday someone asked about software training on campus. I received a link today with information for students wishing to sign up for software training. Go to this link.