For this project, you will develop a multi-media editorial. The printed editorial will be a bound, large-scale publication that explores a subject of your own choosing, selected from a list of topics. The written content for the publication will be developed by you through research, the culling together of different sources, and an Introduction, which you will write yourself. The visual elements for the publication will include:
/ an organizational grid
/ a typographic system
/ a defined visual language
/ infographics or data visualization
that together create a compelling visual narrative about your chosen topic.

You will handle the production of your publication — printing and binding, which will be a perfect-bound book block with a soft, wrap-around cover. (Accordion-fold binding may be used for publication’s whose spine is less than 1/8,” less than ~32 pages.)
In addition, an accompanying digital copy (PDF), mock-ups in addition to a digital experience of the multi-page document will be required.

To bring your narrative and visual language design full circle, you will expand your system into screen-based media through motion graphics and/or digital & social spaces. When designing for the screen, one must consider all the formal elements (line, shape, color, texture, pattern) and apply all principles of composition (balance, visual hierarchy, rhythm, unity & scale) in time and abstractly defined spaces. Each “frame” or “page” as well as its transitions, pace, and flow, need to be examined and designed.

Both content adaptations will require you to draw on all of your experience in design, as well as your critical thinking, organizational abilities, and creativity.

Resources
I. Editorial Pagination Diagram
Editorial Pagination

II. Front & Back Cover Diagram
Front & Back Cover

III. Outline

A. Written Content:
Approximately 10,000 words of text, compiled from a variety of researched sources
1. Title Page
2. Table of Contents
3. Introduction (written by the student)
4. Guts/Articles/Sections (divide as appropriate for your content and narrative)
5. Bibliography (one page)
6. Image Credits (one page)
7. Colophon

B. Typographic System (must include):
• Pagination (folios/page numbers & running heads/feet)
• Headers
• Body Text
• Callouts
• Captions

C. Other Elements:
• One historical timeline (if appropriate) and/or
• Two-three infographics or data visualizations*
(If including timeline then two infographics/data viz is fine)
*Make sure to include the data and/or timeline you are interested in working with along with your Outline and Content Google doc for Monday.

Project Prospectus:
1. Project_Editorial_S26