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Making digitally designed and generated publications

Definition: Publish means making content available to public and it is usually consist of text, image or audio-

visual through medium such as newspaper, magazine, radio and television. Publications refer to the act of

making content publish or refer to the piece of work. Making digitally designed and generated publications

meaning using computers and page layout software to produce publications document.

2. Digital typography, layout, electronic assembly, print production requirements,

communication process.

Definition:

Digital typography refers to the arrangement of typeface and design display electronic. It’s representing the art

of organizing composition of letter form into sentence or words in design work. The knowledge of using

typography will affect the overall look of the design layout.

Layout is the arrangement position of text and illustrations to produce design work.

Electronic assembly meaning gathering information and make it digitize on computer.

Print Production requirements refer to the sets of rules on printing process to avoid faulty and ensure on

quality printing job. Before a production send for printing, piece of work usually will go through a print

requirement checklist including file format, margin, paper size and etc.

Communication process is referring to the process of send and receive message either in verbal or nonverbal

form to its target market.

3. Document form and function

Definition: In print design, form refers to the overall look and feel from a layout with the use of the shape and

looks of each design component in the layout. Function refers to the targeted achievement or objective of a

piece / works whether is to promote, to inform, to remind or to impress. Usually form and function is work

together on a design, function needs form to communicate its message and form without function will be just a

piece of art. By knowing as much information of the function to a design, designers will know the right form to

use in the piece.

4. Good Shape

Definition: Shape in design is the combination of line to form a two dimension illustration or geometric. A

good shape means good appearance of using shape as design element in a way the shape is placed on a page.

Most common shape that use in desktop publishing is square, triangle and circle.

5. Grids

Definition: Grids that uses in design means pages layout. Grid is layout scheme build from a series of

intersecting vertical and horizontal line makes a structure on pages. Grid usually use by designer to structure

content on page to organize content alignment.

6. Usability

Definition: Usability refer to the level of efficiency perceiving a communicate message from a piece by target

audience, whether the piece is able to accomplish its purpose or goals. A usability design should be ease to use

learnable, visual consistency and clear to the user. A method of measuring usability is called usability testing,

which test conducted by group of users to measure the perception of experience on particular work or product.

7. Legibility
Definition: Legibility is also referring as readability / visibility, the degree of understandable of particular

design elements included typeface, type style, paragraph, line and etc. that used in printed layout. The quality

of legibility will affect the perceptibility of a piece to its target audience either in printed or electronic matter.

8. Form design

Definition: As refer to above, form refer to the overall look of the layout. Form design means the arrangement

of component to form a design in a page. Component includes text, illustration styles and etc.

9. Newspaper Style

Definition: Style refers to how something is done or complete. When we compile information and present its

in newspaper written format is called newspaper styles, also refer to a form of presenting content to target

audience.

10. Style Sheet

Definition: Style sheet is a predesigned or customized format file that stored pages setting or text formatting

includes font, paragraph, tabs, border, numbering and others layout settings. Use of style sheet allows user to

make standard and quick changes to a document without redefining settings over each page to document.

Sample:

11. Table, Charts and Graphs

Definition: Table, charts and graphs is form of design / layout to graphically structure information or data.

Usually designers use table, charts or graph to organize information in row and column or symbols for the

purpose of data analysis and better communication.

12. Information Design

Definition: Information design refers to the skills of preparing information that can be use efficiently, either to

present in graphically or visualize delivering the communication throughout the piece. Information design

focus on converting the complex data into two dimensional visual presentations aims to achieve

communication or creating interaction between target audiences. Example of information design could be

corporate web design or a city map.

13. Computer Screen

Definition: Computer screen is digital visual display device which is also called as monitor. Computer screen

usually work with processing device, called center processing unit (CPU) which carries the instruction of a

program. Program like design software is running on computer screen with CPU to execute the application.

14. Studio Works

Definition: Studio is the workroom used by designers or producer who engaged in the publication production.

Studio works refer to the production activity that conducts in studio. Studio work consist different work

production such as video production, print production or digital production.