Learning outcomes

Providing the necessary knowledge to organize the printing of a text in relation to design intentions, editorial needs and production characteristics through the use of computer programs.

Program

Prerequisites: Creative, relationship-wise, proactive, research purposes.

Syllabus
1) Media & Materials:
sizes (iso,offset standards, sheet-fed, folding, trimming, signatures, sheets, leaves, pages, recto/verso, front/back); characteristics (composition, surface, colour, grammage, fibre, caliper); scopes (publishing, finishing, usage).
2) Printing & Binding:
technics (woodcut, tipography, rotogravure, copper engraving, lithography, offset, photography, xerography, silkscreen, relief printing, hot-stamping); characteristics (line engraving, half-tone, four-color process, duplex, pantone, varnishing, films, plates, inks); assembling (staple, twist-stitching binding, perfect binding, hardback, slipcover, endpapers, slipcases, overlapping, millennial binding, outside-text tables, excerpts).
3) Graphics & Design:
writing (lettering, stylistic classification, technical classification); composition (body size, leading, justify, weight, width, slope, orthography, sets, glyphs, kerning); layout (project, grids, roughs, elements, disposition).
4) Editing & Proofreading:
texts (originals, reviews, galley proofs, collations, translations, editing, guides, drafts, diagrams, tables, units, indexes, whiteprints); figures (originals, clipping, bleeds, digital proofs, wet proofs, scanning, sampling, halftone screens, supervising, cuts, reproductions).
5) Tools & Media:
composition (photocomposition, typography, linotype, monotype); prepress (final layouts, assembling, imposition, desktop publishing, macintosh, quark xpress, adobe photoshop, adobe indesign, macromedia freehand).

Texts
I Program:
BRINGHURST R., Gli elementi dello stile tipografico, Edizioni Sylvestre Bonnard, Milano 2001, pp. 27-47, 49-66, 67-80, 158-186, 301-312;
FIORAVANTI G., Il nuovo manuale del grafico, Zanichelli, Bologna 2002;
TSCHICHOLD J., La forma del libro, Edizioni Sylvestre Bonnard, Milano 2003, pp. 37-62, 94-96, 103-107, 108-116, 117-120, 130-132, 133-135, 136-152, 178-179.
II Program:
TERONI M., Manuale di grafica e stampa, Apogeo, Milano 2009.
III Program:
BANN D., La stampa oggi. Tecniche, materiali, processi, Logos, Modena 2007.

Teaching approach: Computer assisted lessons supported by specific in-depth requests from partecipants; Adobe InDesign lab on Mac OS.

Examination Methods

After having standed an executive trial with Adobe InDesign on Mac OS, you'll gain admittance to an interview based on reference books of I Program or II Program or III Program, optionally.

NB: A couple of exam simulations will be provided through download from teacher's webpage, along other educational material as exercise.