Dear Students,  We are in the final stretch before we begin installation. Below are some important production notes; please review and follow carefully.

GENERAL

Spell check: Make sure to spell check your work.

Proofread: Have someone carefully read and proofread your work before final printing / implementation.  

Test: Have tested your interactive work (websites, Apps, etc) on the iPad loaned to you and ensure everything is looking correct and functioning properly before you come to Install.


PREPARING YOUR WORK FOR INSTALLATION 

Mounting: For Wall Display (posters, etc.) – work must be mounted on foam core before being installed
Very important: work must be printed with bleeds and crop marks, attached to foam core (with spray mount), BEFORE being cut out. Follow directions below:

1. Pull out “bleeds” in your document (whether InDesign or Illustrator, etc.)
2. After choosing Export (InDesign) or Save As (Illustrator), under General choose whether or not you are exporting a single page or spread (InDesign), or identify which artboards you are exporting. (see below for reference images)
3. Make sure Compression is “none”
4. Under Marks and Bleeds, select “crop” or “trim” marks and add a measurement for your bleeds (.125 in all boxes will be enough)
5. Print with bleeds and crop marks 
6. Next, apply spray mount to the back of your poster, and then attach to foam core
7. Only once the print and the foam core/board are attached to one another do you cut it out, using the crop marks, and straight edge, and a sharp x-acto knife. (Craft matters!)

Booklets and Editorials: These can be outsourced (printed professionally) or handmade. We ask that whichever route you choose, the craft is at the top of mind. The lab offers a booklet stapler for those who are interested in using it.

Time-Based Work: Full-motion video + audio rendered in full resolution. Review renders to ensure that the quality is good and there are no glitches in advance of Installation. Install locally on iPad.

Websites + Interactive Experiences: Figma or live websites, play locally in iPad. Test App or Website on device to ensure that everything is working correctly in advance of Installation. Bring to class on iPad to demonstrate.

FINER POINTS OF TYPOGRAPHY

Refine Typography: Review all design and refine rags, look for and fix extra spaces, widows, orphans, or other typographical errors.
To create a good rag, pay attention to the shape that the ragged line endings make. A good rag goes in and out from line to line in small increments. A poor rag creates distracting shapes of white space, i.e. “curves” or “holes,” etc. The only way to get a nice rag is to adjust it by hand. In some cases you may need to (sparingly) hyphenate very long words that create large “holes.”



“Hang” Punctuation: Hang punctuation that occurs at the end of lines slightly out in the margins. (See example 2 below). This includes quotation marks, hyphens, periods, etc). In InDesign, use the “Optical Margin Alignment” settings under the Type Menu when this is sufficient.

Dashes: There are three kinds of dashes: hyphens, en-dashes, and em-dashes. Use spaced en-dashes (–) rather than a hyphen (-) or the long (—) em-dash to set off phrases. Use the em-dash to introduce speakers in a narrative.

Widows and Orphans: Look for and Remove all “windows” and “orphans” in your typography. Refresher: widows & orphans
[Source: https://thegoodpage.net/2015/11/21/rags-widows-orphans/]

Use “Space After” for Paragraph Spacing
Don’t use a double line break between paragraphs. This is too large, and now how typographers/designers set type. Instead, set a “Space After” amount in under Paragraph settings, and apply to all of your paragraphs. See resources below for instructions for how to accomplish this.
Adobe on Paragraph Settings
Video Tutorial – Using Space After

Image Credits: All projects should include a page to give credit to any found imagery and content being used. Include the page number where image or content is used, as well as title of image, author, and source where you found this image. No URLs.

Bibliography: List of your research, content being used, etc. Set up as you would in an academic essay/paper. (If you are directly using found text content, you may also be able to include this, if a small number of citations, in your Colophon.) No URLs.

Colophon: usually the very last thing in a book (See Parts of Book Diagram PDF above). A colophon is a traditional element in a book that provides details on printing, production, typography, and often other specifics about the book, its content, and authorship. Example of what a Colophon for a publication that is one of your capstone medium’s. See sample Colophon language here.

PRINTING & BINDING

Binding
There are quite a few bookbinding resources on our class site already, but here are a few in one place for easy access re: binding.
Perfect Binding Video Tutorial >
Perfect Binding & Attaching Cover to an accordion-fold bound book >
How to cut a smooth book edge Video >
– Perfect for perfect bound single sheet books (cannot do this to accordion-fold books)
Sewing Saddle Stitch Book Video >
Bookbinding Glue >

Perfect Binding with Liquid Glue
1. Assemble your book block (single pages stacked together)
2. Have two or more binder clips to help keep your book block organized and together while binding
3. Use two heavy books (or reams of paper, etc.) to make a DIY “book press” that you will use to hold your book during the gluing process
4. See schematic drawings and instructions for this method (PDF)