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Practices In Designing A Scholarly Journal And Its Style Guide, Monique Martinez
Practices In Designing A Scholarly Journal And Its Style Guide, Monique Martinez
Graphic Communication
The purpose of this project was to create a method for designing a scholarly journal by managing all design and print aspects of a Volume II, student produced, journal. The journal, Paideia, included student research papers and alumni successes in the workplace from California Polytechnic State University’s Political Science Department. Responsibilities included inserting text and photos from the Political Science committee, and making a cohesive layout and design with all elements given. Since a new volume of the journal will be assembled each year, a style guide was also produced alongside the journal, for future students to refer to when …
Hand Operated Tabletop Letterpress Assembly Instructions 1.0, George Chiu, Brendan Domos, Spencer Herzog, Nathan Sandidge, Kevin Weinstein
Hand Operated Tabletop Letterpress Assembly Instructions 1.0, George Chiu, Brendan Domos, Spencer Herzog, Nathan Sandidge, Kevin Weinstein
Theses
A group of RIT Mechanical Engineering students spent the 2014-2015 academic year in their senior design class collaborating with the RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection to design and fabricate a 21st century hand-operated platen press.
The press that was designed during this engineering exercise met several requirements:
- be under 30 lbs
- fit in a 24 inch square table top space
- be manufactured with a majority of components which could be purchased from a standard parts supplier
- be able to print with commonly manufactured ink rollers, ink, letterpress chases, spacing and furniture
- the platen and packing had to be adjustable to …