Editorial Design

The design of complex serial publications, and with a special emphasis on:

• Information architecture
• Copy-editing
• Bibliographical reference systems
• Advanced hyphenation and justification
• Advanced microtypography

Knowledge:

The student is in possession of operational knowledge about punctuation and micro typography according to national rules of orthography, different bibliographical reference systems, different areas of scientific and scholarly inquiry, different house styles, and different typographic conventions.

Skills:

The student can in a purposeful and systematic manner handle hyphenation and justification parameters and micro-typographic variables both with respect to context and genre. The student can implement a design or redesign project of a journal while adhering to genre conventions, based on a contemporary and appealing visual language while aiming at a high level of practical functionality, usability and informativity, and which combines a consistent visual identity with an appropriate level of visual differentiation from issue to issue and from volume to volume.

General competence:

As a team member in a design or redesign project of a serial publication, the student will be able to contribute with constructive suggestions about technical and editorial development which take into account needs and preferences of readers, authors, editors and production staff.

Combined individual project and two-person group project, with weekly supervision (formative-iterative evaluation). Sketches, the work process, intermediate prototypes and the end result with specifications (among other things) must be documented in a report -- in addition to the presentation of final prototypes.