I've been stuck on exercise 5 analyse an essay and it's holding me back quite badly. I've decided to move on with Part 2 Photography in Publishing 1 and revisit analysing an essay over the next few days. I know my deadline is flexible but I would like to keep up with it as much as possible.
I've worked in design for many years and really got a lot of satisfaction using Photoshop, Illustrator and Quark Xpress in previous occupations. My present version of Photoshop is CS5 and I look forward to learning new tricks with the help section on the OCA Website resources section. I subscribed to a design newsletter for a couple of years some time ago and it gave some exciting layouts and designs which I incorporated in the work I did then. The shame was that it ceased publication which was so disappointing as I found it extremely useful.
Over my working life I have also been on several one-day/2-day design courses for publications and am interested in how magazine/newsletter design has changed since I first started. I was always told that you MUST use a sans serif font (Arial or Comic Sans for example) for headlines and a serif font (Times New Roman) for body text as it makes the eye flow along the lines of text more easily. When I look at newspapers and magazines now this accepted standard seems to have gone out the window and any font anywhere seems to be the rule of thumb.
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