Digital Text Layout

DES2104.01
Course System Home Terms Spring 2025 Digital Text Layout

Course Description

Summary

In this course, students will work in Adobe Illustrator on text and layout specific projects. Starting with the foundations of Illustrator, the course will progress to basic and advanced functions of the typographic interface. The use of artboards and layer management, pen tools and path-finders, text and type formatting, color management, and printing will be practiced through projects focusing on type and type formatting. Students will use the knowledge and skills they gain to create unique printed matter using the Risograph printer.

Instructor

  • Gus Ramirez

Day and Time

Academic Term

Spring 2025

Area of Study

Credits

2

Course Level

2000

Maximum Enrollment

12