Document Design

• Producing print (tangible) materials 
• Fine-grained design focus 
• Medium (print/online) 
• Fonts (serifs/san serif) 
• Involves graphics/non-textual design objects 
• Usability 
• Layout 
• Legibility 
• Audience, context, purpose 
• Consistency 
• Rhetoric 
• Politics 
• Lying/manipulation 
• Ethos (credibility), pathos (emotion), logos (logic) 
• Prompting or cueing decisions/actions 
• Persuasion 
• Reading/absorbing media shapes beliefs/actions

What can we get from this course?

• Knowledge of production issues 
• Information about open-source alternatives to industry standard Adobe programs 
• Experience with design tools