Design in Publishing

Home > Open Courses > Marketing and Publicity


Design in Publishing


Dates:

11-12 November 2008 (a two-day course)

 

Price:

£619+VAT (a number of discounts are available)

 

Venue:

The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels)


Book course online or phone +44 (0)20 8874 2718 for availability

 

"I have gained a better understanding of grids, fonts, tricks for drop shadows and opaque overlays. Excellent course!"

Elsevier delegate



Are you expected to design documents in a publishing environment, but lack any training in design? Then this course is ideal for you. Working on a PC in QuarkXPress, Photoshop and Acrobat, you'll learn how to:

 

  • create your own designs from start to finish
  • appreciate the aesthetic considerations of typesetting
  • make good use of colour
  • manage and manipulate images
  • discover the variety of design solutions for any task.

 

After this practical course you'll have gained the skills and confidence you just can't get from battling away on your own. Whether you produce leaflets, flyers, posters, catalogues or forms, you'll be capable of producing work that does the job - and that you can be proud of.


Note: this course was previously known as Good Design Using DTP.

Programme

  • Design considerations within the DTP environment
    • The computer as an additional assistant to design
    • The importance of discipline and accuracy
    • The extensive capacity of the system and knowing which software to use
  • Typography and fonts
    • Tuning the system for individual application
    • Aesthetic consideration in type
    • Font size and style
  • Layout and balance
    • Designing on screen
    • Alignment, illustration and space
    • Working with grids
    • The variety of design solutions
    • Exchanging files between applications
  • Graphics, namestyles and logos
    • Looking for the original angle
    • Keeping it simple
  • Colour considerations
    • Colour separation – who should do it?
    • Process colour
    • Importing mono and colour scans
  • Printing your design
    • Printing devices
    • Colour proofs
    • Film output
  • Future developments
  • Practical exercises
    • On-screen criticism and comparison of promotional material
    • Constructing publicity material (text and graphics supplied)
    • Designing a logo on paper and translating it to a drawing program
    • Colour separation

 

Your tutor
Ged Lennox trained in fine art before joining a commercial studio where he gained experience in design, layout and illustration. He now works as a consultant specialising in computer design, illustration and DTP.


Note that most of our open courses can also be run as in company events.


Send details of this course to a colleague.


Dates: 11-12 November 2008

Price: £619+VAT (a number of discounts are available).

Venue: The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels).

Make a provisional booking on Design in Publishing

619
Booking form

Please complete this form to make a provisional booking. You will then receive an acknowledgement by email.

Shortly afterwards, we will send you a registration form with which you can confirm your booking.

* Denotes required fields
Your details
* 

* 
Delegate details (if different)
1



2



Address details
* 


Course details
Course title:
Design in Publishing
Course price:
£619 +VAT
* 
Discounts
Select one of the following if you're entitled to one of our range of discounts. To check your eligibility, visit our Discounts and Funding page.
Other information
Anything else you'd like to tell us. If you've been issued with a voucher from the Publishing Training Centre and you'd like to use it with this booking, or you'd like to book more than three people on this course, let us know here. Alternatively, you can email us directly at bookings@bookhouse.co.uk.

Is this the first booking you've made with the Publishing Training Centre? If so, we'd be grateful if you could tell us where you learned about our courses.
11-12 November 2008