Examination arrangement

Course content

The design of complex serial publications, and with a special emphasis on:

• Information architecture
• Copy-editing
• Bibliographical reference systems
• Advanced hyphenation and justification
• Advanced microtypography

Learning outcome

The student is in possession of operational knowledge about punctuation and micro typography according to national rules of orthography, different bibliographical reference systems, different areas of scientific and scholarly inquiry, different house styles, and different typographic conventions. The student can in a purposeful and systematic manner handle hyphenation and justification parameters and micro-typographic variables both with respect to context and genre. The student can implement a design or redesign project of a journal while adhering to genre conventions, based on a contemporary and appealing visual language while aiming at a high level of practical functionality, usability and informativity, and which combines a consistent visual identity with an appropriate level of visual differentiation from issue to issue and from volume to volume. As a team member in a design or redesign project of a serial publication, the student will be able to contribute with constructive suggestions about technical and editorial development which take into account needs and preferences of readers, authors, editors and production staff.

Learning methods and activities

Combined individual project and two-person group project, with weekly supervision (formative-iterative evaluation). Sketches, the work process, intermediate prototypes and the end result with specifications (among other things) must be documented in a report -- in addition to the presentation of final prototypes.

Further on evaluation

Summative assessment at the end of term: Passed/failed. The passed project then becomes part of a work portfolio and can later be chosen by the student to be included in the final presentation portfolio of ten practical design projects which will be marked by a group of internal and external examiners at the end of the study programme’'s third and last year (grading scale A–--F). See the programme description for BA Graphic Design for further information about the final evaluation and grading of the presentation portfolio.

Specific conditions

Recommended previous knowledge

IDG1010 Typography 2

Required previous knowledge

Admission to the study programme Bachelor in Graphic Design (BMED), and having passed IDG1101 Typography 1

Course materials

• Erikson, Martin G. 2010. Riktig kildebruk: kunsten å referere og sitere. Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk.
• French, Nigel. 2018. InDesign type: professional typography with Adobe InDesign CC. 4th ed. Adobe Press.

Supporting literature:

• Few, Stephen. 2012. Show me the numbers: designing tables and graphs to enlighten. 2nd ed. Burlingame, CA: Analytics Press.
• Joshi, Yateendra. 2003. Communicating in style. New Dehli: The Energy and Resources Institute.
• Klanten, Robert, et.al. 2010. Turning pages: editorial design for print media. Berlin: Gestalten.
• Lipson, Charles. Cite right: a quick guide to citation styles -- MLA, APA, Chicago, the sciences, professions, and more. 3rd ed. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
• The Chicago manual of style. 2017. 17th ed. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 
• The Chicago manual of style online. 2017. 17. utg. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. [requires login via Oria / NTNU Universitetsbiblioteket]
• Vinje, Finn Erik. 2009. Skriveregler. (9th or newer edition; «bokmål» or «nynorsk»). Oslo: Aschehoug.