Design for Journalists J 152
Friday Lab; Annenberg 2
Dannell MacIlwraith
Phone: 610.462.3771;
dannell@temple.edu;
http://www.dannelldesigns.com/j152

Objective
In lab classes, you will design your first magazine cover, newspaper spread, and Web site using the latest design/editing tools, including Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe In-Design CS2, and Macromedia DreamWeaver 8.

Recommended Texts:
These will be available as software reference in labs; you may also purchase and share them on your lab teams. Some of the books are available used on Amazon.com or other book store.)
**required texts
1. Adobe InDesign CS2: Hands-On Training, Brian Wood (Peachpit Press)
2. Photoshop for Windows & Macintosh (CS2), Elaine Weinmann (Visual Quickstart Guide, PeachPit Press)
3. **Teach Yourself Visually: Macromedia Dreamweaver 8, Janine Warner (Visual, 2nd edition)
4. **The Non-Designer’s Web Book (2nd Ed), Robin Williams and John Tollett (Peachpit)

Lab Projects:
1. Design a magazine cover.
2. Design a newspaper spread; solve various newspaper design challenges.
3. Design a news or feature story for a Web site or on-line publication.
Laboratory grade: 50% (including completion of all assigned projects)
Each milestone project in your laboratory will be weighted as approximately 1/3 (20%) of your final laboratory grade.

Scale:
A: Outstanding work and/or outstanding improvement and effort.
B: Solid work and/or solid work and effort.
C: Adequate work and effort.
D: Sub par work (class must be repeated to count towards major).
F: No grasp of the subject matter and no effort made.

Absences
No more than 3 unexcused absences. If you exceed that number, in lecture OR lab, your grade will automatically drop by a half grade point.

Cheating and Plagiarizing
Because your labs will be closely monitored by instructors, you will need to show the progression of your work on each project. Lecture exams will be proctored.
Ethics and honesty are valued qualities of mass communication professionals and essential to your craft. Per department policy, any student caught cheating or plagiarizing an assignment, design project, or exam will fail the course and should expect university disciplinary action.

Special Accommodations
Students with special needs are encouraged to identify themselves to the lecturer and lab instructors so that arrangements can be made to provide extra help.

Lab Schedule:

Jan. 19 Welcome to Mac
Homework: Collect/strategize magazine ideas

Jan. 26 Photoshop Tutorial (interface, photos, cropping, resizing) Start Magazine Cover

Feb. 2 Photoshop Tutorial (layers and adjustment)

Feb 9. Photoshop Tutorial (Creating a Name Plate)

Feb. 16 Indesign Tutorial
Magazine Cover Due

Feb. 23 Indeisgn Tutorial
Homework: Thumbnails for Newspaper Spread

March 2 Work on Newspaper Spread in class

March 9 Spring Break

March 16 Intro to HTML and Dreamweaver
Newspaper Printed Due

March 23 Dreamweaver Tutorial
Homework: Thumbnails for web project

March 30 Dreamweaver Tutorial

April 6 CSS

April 13 Work in Class; More Dreamweaver

April 20. Work in Class

April 27 Published Website Due

All dates and assignments are subject to change.