Spring Semester begins

This week marks the beginning of our spring semester here at Truman. Fresh from spring break, except for the major cold I caught, I'm ready to tackle our new projects. Today I am presenting my Design II project which is a 12' X 12' cube of the game clue. It is set up with different planes of the mansion on the inside and with mystery murder themed information on the outside.

For my Digital Software class, we were tasked with redesigning this poster for a chili cook-off held on campus. However this will be the first time that we will have to design on paper and then put that design and recreate it on the computer. This process will require a little extra care in certain areas. One aspect pointed out by our teacher was 'copyfitting' which we were supposed to look up and here is what I found.

Copyfitting is the process of making sure a line or block of text is not too small or too large once you have figured in point size and font. If you go over the space you are given it is often called an overset. To combat this you could adjust the font size as a whole or the space in between individual letters, lines or paragraphs. Sometimes complicated situations arise but each must be dealt with in a slightly different way. Using the skills we have learned in Indesign so far I'm confident this won't be too big of an issue.