4 Days

This four-day course will cover all the stages involved in creating a piece of designed, printed material from inception to delivery of the finished product. Using a combination of Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator, the following areas of Design will be covered:

• Areas of print design; brochures, magazines, book covers, typesetting, packaging, display design
• Sourcing images; legality
• Resolution and colour space: CMYK & RGB
• Discussion of styles/design solutions
• Print options - what paper stock
• Manipulation and combining images and prepping for use in layout (Photoshop)
• Receiving copy
• Discussion of basics of typography - font usage, margins and gutter, use of images, paragraph options etc.
• Creating basic document layouts (InDesign)
• Creation of any illustrative or diagramatic elements (Illustrator); also touching on logo design
• Combining elements on final print ready document
• Creation of low resolution proofs for client
• Implementation of final changes - client sign off
• Creation of high resolution PDFs to send to print
• Roundup discussion of best practices

Cost: €420 member / €450 non-member
Dates: 13 - 16 Sep