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Online Line Class

March 29, 2020 - Sunday

6:30 pm to 8:30pm  - With breaks during the class

No Cost

Please RSVP - Class A  (video feed)

Where: 

Go to Meeting app is where I will be hosting the class. You do not need to create an account to join. But you do need the GoToMeeting app.

If new to GoToMeeting, Get the app and be ready when our first Class. After RSVPing you will be emailed a link to log in to the Class. 

To download and test your system: MB Class Test Page https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/194145213

Homework

Please complete the homework after the class.

#3 Design a printed piece (flier, T-shirt, program, form, etc.) and produce it. Explain your decisions for the typeface or typefaces you use and the way you arrange the elements in your design. Explain which printing process is best suited for printing your design. If desktop publishing is available, identify what hardware and software would be appropriate for outputting your design.

#4. Produce the design you created for requirement 3 using one of the following printing processes:      (c is preferred, but Scout a can do a, b or d )

a. Offset lithography. Make a layout, and produce a plate using a process approved by your counselor. Run the plate and print at least 50 copies.

b. Screen printing. Make a hand-cut or photographic stencil and attach it to a screen that you have prepared. Mask the screen and print at least 20 copies.

c. Electronic/digital printing. Create a layout in electronic form, download it to the press or printer, and run 50 copies. If no electronic interface to the press or printer is available, you may print and scan a paper copy of the layout.

d. Relief printing. Prepare a layout or set the necessary type. Make a plate or lock up the form. Use this to print 50 copies.

#6 Do ONE of the following, then describe the highlights of your visit:

a. Visit a newspaper printing plant. Follow a story from the editor to the press.

b. Visit a retail, commercial, or in-plant printing facility. Follow a project from beginning to end.

c. Visit a school’s graphic arts program. Find out what courses are available and what the prerequisites are.

d. Visit three websites (with your parent’s permission) that belong to graphic arts professional organizations and/or printing-related companies (suppliers, manufacturers, printers). With permission from your parent or counselor, print out or download product or service information from two of the sites.