For my typesetting example I chose
my redone Magazine Spread. I had to type in the copy myself then I had to find a similar size and font to fit everything into the layout. Setting margins and tabs while controlling leading made for a very interesting job. For some reason my tabs were acting oddly when I started the formatting but in the end they decided to cooperate with me. I tried to get the paragraph
form and text to line up as close as I could with the original and in the end it didn't turn out too bad. Luckily there wasn't too much in the lines of text wrapping around photographs. There was a small issue with size though. It took me a while to adjust the point size and leadding so that the text would fit but would also look similar in size and style.
My favorite part of the typesetting was probably going in and adding the extra text throughout the layout. Anything from the super easy page numbers to the picture caption and title heading, it was fun because it was fairly simple, usually just messing with colors and type faces, and it really helped add resemblance to the original piece.
This piece in my portfolio was a tough choice. I had a few other projects to choose from that had a lot of text flow but because this one gave me the most trouble I decided to choose it because overall I was just as pleased with the result when I was finished and that means something to you when your finished.
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