Saddle Stitched Calendar Assignment Sheet

AVC1430-Digital Prepress

Saddle Stitched Calendar Due Date ___________

Abstracts/Specs: A. Design a current full year saddle stitched calendar. Prepare several thumbnails and rough sketches that designate color, text and other graphic elements. Make sure to identify major holidays and events. Create a design that focuses on unity and cohesiveness throughout the layout. Imposition your calender for a saddle stitched booklet. Make sure to give 1/8 bleed allowance and use full resolution photos. Pixel based images should be actual size in layout at 300 dpi and CMYK. Use of low quality images will be marked down. Flattened tif files are recommended for file exports from Photoshop, and eps files are the recommended file format from Illustrator. Turn in a 1 up file, an imposed pdf file with bleeds and marks, a printed sample, a packaged Indesign file folder, and burn files to a CD. Objectives: • • • • •

Understand saddle stitching. Utilize standard bleed Utilize correct images Utilize imposition. Understand file collection/file packaging

Evaluation: Grade consists of 6 parts: 123456-

Timeliness Professionalism & neatness Presenting project in class Research/Accuracy Overall composition Completion of total project -following All specs

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