TY2ED-Introduction to editorial design

Module Provider: Typography
Number of credits: 20 [10 ECTS credits]
Level:5
Terms in which taught: Summer term module
Pre-requisites:
Non-modular pre-requisites:
Co-requisites:
Modules excluded:
Current from: 2023/4

Module Convenor: Ms Sara Chapman
Email: s.k.chapman@reading.ac.uk

Type of module:

Summary module description:
An introduction to editorial typography and typographic detailing.

Aims:
To develop skills in typographic detailing and editorial typography.

Assessable learning outcomes:

By the end of the module students should be able to:

• identify and use typographic conventions to articulate text at micro and macro levels of organisation


• demonstrate consistency of layout and typography across a variety of text pages and cover


• demonstrate craft skills in visualising, specifying, or mocking up a dummy of a book


• create InDesign files and press-ready pdfs to professional standards


• appraise document design theory and its application to practice


• develop skills in academic research and writing

Additional outcomes:
Students should also be able to: incorporate development, production and analysis of a number of solutions to the same design problem into their design method; articulate their ideas visually, through drawing and work on computers; defend their approach to a problem; and make an effective verbal and visual presentation of their ideas.

Outline content:

Students will typically work on a single book design project, exploring different to solutions to different parts of the book (such as: covers, prelims and end matter, as well as the main text pages), engage with production considerations (imposition, binding and prepress issues) and consider how theoretical approaches can inform their practice. 

Brief description of teaching and learning methods:

Students will typically work on a studio project in the Summer term of Part 1. The brief will comprise a book design and a specification. The book design will be developed through a series of assessed tasks, some of which may be collaborative. A plenary briefing session will introduce the main project brief and associated tasks. Thereafter seminars and workshops are used to introduce concepts and approaches, which inform project work and the completion of tasks. Interim critici sm is through a system of scheduled small group feedback sessions.

Note: Teaching for the module takes place in the summer term of part 1. The book design (including dummy) will be submitted before the end of the summer term and the specification will be submitted at the start of autumn term.

Contact hours:

	Autumn	Spring	Summer
Seminars			7
Tutorials			20
Demonstration			3
Practicals classes and workshops			10
Guided independent study:			160
Total hours by term			200
Total hours for module	200

Summative Assessment Methods:

Method	Percentage
Written assignment including essay	30
Project output other than dissertation	70

Summative assessment- Examinations:
N/A

Summative assessment- Coursework and in-class tests:

The book design tasks completed and submitted in summer term will comprise 70% of the module mark. The essay, which will be completed over the summer vacation for submission in the autumn term, will comprise 30% of the module mark.

Formative assessment methods:
Tutorial feedback and peer review will take place throughout the project and plenary sessions will review work from across the group at significant milestones.

Penalties for late submission:

The Support Centres will apply the following penalties for work submitted late:

• where the piece of work is submitted after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline): 10% of the total marks available for that piece of work will be deducted from the mark for each working day (or part thereof) following the deadline up to a total of five working days;
• where the piece of work is submitted more than five working days after the original deadline (or any formally agreed extension to the deadline): a mark of zero will be recorded.

The University policy statement on penalties for late submission can be found at: https://www.reading.ac.uk/cqsd/-/media/project/functions/cqsd/documents/cqsd-old-site-documents/penaltiesforlatesubmission.pdf
You are strongly advised to ensure that coursework is submitted by the relevant deadline. You should note that it is advisable to submit work in an unfinished state rather than to fail to submit any work.

Assessment requirements for a pass:
A mark of 40% overall.

Reassessment arrangements:
Resubmission of body of work in August/September of part 3; to be notified.

Additional Costs (specified where applicable):

1. Required text books: None


2. Specialist equipment or materials: None


3. Specialist clothing, footwear or headgear: None


4. Printing and binding: None


5. Computers and devices with a particular specification: None


6. Travel, accommodation and subsistence: None

Last updated: 30 March 2023