(3 Credit Hours/4 Contact Hours)

Prerequisites: A minimum of C in GRA1203C and GRA1206C or department approval.

Designed to provide students with hands on usage of highend publishing software and hardware for the production of quality publications. A focus on good graphic design skills will include: composition, layout, typography, pagination, style, balance, format and project planning.

Course Outline

* advertisement redesign
* publication research
* output of film basics
* trapping
* form generation
* written and objective exams
* brochure design
* working with clients
* scanning
* collection of samples
* QuarkXPress - advanced
* Illustrator & Photoshop