Examination arrangement

Course content

Editorial design II consists of two extensive and complex design projects e.g. redesigning a newspaper and designing a series of book covers where the student will further develop her/his techniques and skills in editorial design. The course particularly builds on knowledge and skills acquired in the courses Typography I, Typography II and Editorial design I.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

• The student will after completing the course have expanded their knowledge of editorial design i.e. for newspaper and book cover design.
• The student have gained knowledge about concept development, adherance to genre conventions, communication, legibilty and readability, structuring of information and other important aspects of editorial design.

Skills:

• The student have furthered their skills og proficiency of tools for planning and executing graphic designs in a editorial context.
• The student have developed theirs skills related to genre adaptation of designs, tool excellence, detail typography, design for readability, and effective communication.
• Necessary technical skills for developing and implementing design solutions both for paper and screen based media are slowly, but surely refined and internalized.

General competences:

• The student will after yet another course with practical design project(s) have continued developing as a researcher, concept developer and graphic designer.
• The student has established a continually expanding repertoire of solution types and topical lingo. As a developing designer the student are familiar with a growing number of typical genres in both paper- and screen mediated communication and interaction solutions.
• As such, the student develops a good foundation for creating high quality and creative communication solutions as a proficient designer.

Learning methods and activities

Two individual project, with weekly supervision (formative-iterative evaluation). Sketches, the work process, and the end result must be documented.

Further on evaluation

The portfolio contain the final delivery of design solutions for two editoral design-assignments.

The projects are developed through iterative process with weekly tutored sesssions and peer feedback.

Final deliveries are submitted at the end of the course. The final project is presented to the class at the appointed time.

Summative evaluation at the end of the semester: Pass / fail.

If the course is failed, a new or improved portfolio must be submitted through the next regular run-trough of the course.

Specific conditions

Required previous knowledge

Admission to a programme of study is required: Graphic Design (BMED)

• IDG1101 Typography 1
• IDG1010 Typography 2
• IDG2012 Editorial design 1

Course materials

Franchi, Francesco (2013). Designing news. Berlin: Gestalten. SUPPORTIVE LITERATURE: Birdsall, Derek (2004). Notes on book design. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. Hochuli, Jost (2002). Printed matter: mainly books. Zurich: Niggli. Mendelsund, Peter (2014). Cover. New York: Powerhouse Books. Willberg, Hans Peter (1994). Handbuch der Einband-Gestaltung. Mainz: Hermann Schmidt. Errea, Javier. 2018. Newspaper design: Editorial design from the world’s best newsrooms. Berlin: Gestalten Munk, Ole. 2018. Visuel journalistik. Århus: Forlaget Ajour

Credit reductions