Design for Journalists

Welcome to JOU1114 Spring 2012

susanjacobson — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:46:57 +0000

JOU 1114 – Design for Journalists – will use WordPress and Temple’s Blackboard system for this course. Below is some information you will need to know before we get started.

Required Texts
The required textbooks should be available in the Temple Bookstore. They are also readily available online at most booksellers. The Web Style Guide is available as a FREE online text.

Patrick Lynch and Sarah Horton. Web Style Guide, 3rd Edition. Yale University Press. ISBN: 0300137370.
Robin Williams. The Non-Designer’s Design Book (3rd Edition). (PeachPit Press). ISBN: 0321534042

Technical Reference Books Available from Books 24/7
Access to these text is FREE, but you must be on Temple’s campus or logged in to the Library to view these books.

The Photoshop CS4 Bible. JohnWiley & Sons, 2009. http://library.books24x7.com.libproxy.temple.edu/toc.asp?bookid=29579
The InDesign CS4 Bible. John Wiley & Sons, 2009. http://library.books24x7.com.libproxy.temple.edu/toc.asp?bookid=29575
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Classroom in a Book. Adobe Press, 2010. http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com.libproxy.temple.edu/9780321712998?uicode=templeu

You Might Consider…

If you already have some digital production skills, you might consider a monthly subscription to Lynda.com. For $25 per month, you get unlimited access to online video tutorials on every software package imaginable. I subscribe to Lynda.com to get up to speed on new software versions of my favorite production software packages, such as Dreamweaver and Flash.

Using Blackboard

The syllabus and other important course documents will be posted on the Blackboard site associated with this class. If you have a question about the class schedule, or the details of an assignment, check the Blackboard site. Grades are also posted in the Blackboard Gradebook.

Using WordPress

I will post all of the lecture notes and some additional information on this blog. Your lab instructors will ask you to post all of your assignments to a WordPress blog for your lab. You must create a WordPress account to post assignments to your lab blogs. To become a contributor to this blog and your lab blog, you must send your lab instructor the e-mail address you used to set up your WordPress account.

Computer Labs

Students should use the Tech Center to complete their assignments that are due outside of class. The hours for the Tech Center are as follows:

• Monday-Thursday – Open 24 hours
• Friday – 12am-7:30pm
• Saturday – 10am-7:30pm
• Sunday – 11am to 12am

Storage Media

Students will need to purchase storage media for their production projects. Student files may not be left on the computers in Annenberg 2 or the Tech Center. The choices for storage media include:

A portable USB drive – Get at least 512MB of storage (about $10 at Staples).
A Web-based cloud account. DropBox http://www.dropbox.com gives you 2GB of free storage. Amazon provides 5GB of free storage to registered users.

Taiwan’s Apple Daily Animates the News

susanjacobson — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:06:42 +0000

Next Media is behind a series of 3D news animations that are featured in Taiwan’s Apple News. While some of the animations are meant to be funny (see Tiger Woods and Tea Party Express below), most of the work is created as animated re-enactments of the news stories. “People really want to watch stuff instead of reading,” said Simon Lee, CEO of multimedia for Apple Daily. “Some people might have a hesitation about the truthfulness,” Lee said. “I debate them. Even if I write something, how true is that? We’ve been training [the animators] for two years to obtain every detail in the crime scene.” (See the article here.)

The Tiger Woods Scandal
with commentary from the Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2009/1202/tiger-woods-apologizes-taiwanese-news-site-animates-accident-rumors

The Tea Party Express
You know Sarah Palin and Christine O’Donnell enjoy this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrcIWgF5cYs&feature=player_embedded

A PG-Rated Crime Re-Enactment
Click on the left button to indicate that you are older then 18 years old.

http://tw.nextmedia.com/applenews/article/art_id/32117533/IssueID/20091126

The Gap Changes Its Logo to…Guess What…Then Changes It Back

susanjacobson — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:49:00 +0000

Gap migrates from its modern style serif to … the font formerly known as Neue Haas Grotesk. Story is here.

Thanks to Fran Hilario for spotting this.

HOLD THE PRESSES!

Apparently the Gap had a change of heart:

http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/blogs/media/2010/10/gaps_new_logo_launched_then_loathed.html