2d graphic design

project: Glasgow Emblem Digitisation Project

Grant Holder: Professor Alison Adams
The site has been developed, with generous funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council under the Resource Enhancement Scheme, by a team led by Post-Doctoral Research Assistant Jonathan Spangler, and Project Director Alison Adams. All but two of the emblem books digitised are from the Stirling Maxwell Collection in Glasgow University Library. The Bodleian Library and the Bibliothèque Mazarine have generously made material available to enable us to present the complete corpus. The Project is undertaken within the OpenEmblem initiative. [read more]

tool: QuarkXPress

Purpose: 

QuarkXPress desktop publishing software is commonly used to create page layouts for a variety of print publications such as books, newspapers, magazines, posters and brochures.

Similar in function to InDesign, the main differences are Quark's unique features for exporting documents as interactive webpages as well as its widespread use by printers, typesetters and page designers.

Features: 
  • Enables the production of HTML and XML content without the need to convert or refine documents
  • Supports direct PDF importing and outputing according to regulations
  • Fully supports Adobe Photoshop files, avoiding complicated and time-consuming conversions
  • Uses OpenType and Unicode, making font and character settings easy
  • Free TypeTricks XTension locates overset text boxes as well as widows and orphans
  • Presents intuitive colour-management tools that includes the unique option of hexachrome printing
  • Allows the customisation of line and border dashes and stripes as well as the merging of boxes to generate complex shapes
  • Text runaround for hidden layers may be turned off
  • Shared Content instantly incorporates any text or graphic changes consistently throughout a project
  • XPress Composition Zones allow team members to work simulatenously on a project, with all modifications being updated instantly
  • Job jackets keep print job specifications consistent throughout the project, ensuring their clarity and memorability
A&H use case 1 description: 
The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM) project used QuarkXPress alongside other tools to create an electronic archive of medieval polyphonic music images. The purpose of the archive is to allow detailed study of the music and its sources as well as to ensure their preservation.
Creator: 
Quark Inc
Software/programming languages used: 
Quark Xpress
Data publishing and dissemination: 
Desktop publishing and pre-press
General website development
Collaborative publishing
Specifications: 
Portable Document Format (PDF)
Unicode
PhotoShop Document (PSD)
QuarkXpress Document (QXD)
XML
HTML/XHTML
Platform: 
Microsoft Windows
Mac OS X
Discipline: 
Design
Data structuring and enhancement: 
2d modelling - raster
Tags: 
2d graphic design
Desktop publishing and pre-press
QuarkXpress
Quark
DTP
typesetting
printing
Alternate tool(s): 

Adobe InDesign

Practice-led research: 
2d graphic design
Licence: 
commercial
lifecycleStage: 
publishing
By danafarra at Wed, 02/06/2010 - 09:57

project: arts-humanities.net

Grant Holder: SheilaAnderson
arts-humanities.net is an online hub for research and teaching in the digital arts and humanities. It enables members to locate information, promote their research and discuss ideas. [read more]

eventresources: 'Blue Skies and Singing Rings': Digital Technologies and Jewellery of the Future

Report from the Methods Network seminar hosted by David Humphrey (Royal College of Art) at The Dana Centre Studio, London, 26 October 2006.

Tags: 
2d graphic design
2d scanning
3d graphic design
3d Scanning
digital jewellry
Discipline: 
Design
By Lydia Horstman at Wed, 30/07/2008 - 19:49

eventresources: Talking CGI

Report from the Methods Network seminar organized by Paul Wells as part of The Art of British CGI: Contemporary, Independent and Television Animation conference, Animation Academy, Loughborough University, 15 February 2007.

Tags: 
2d graphic design
2d illustration
Animation
3d graphic design
3d modelling - vector
Motion analysis
Video editing
Video post production
Discipline: 
Media
Visual Arts
Design
By Torsten Reimer at Wed, 30/07/2008 - 19:08

eventresources: INTIMACY: Across Digital and Visceral Performance

Evaluation and reports from the Methods Network hybrid workshop/seminar activity, organized by Maria Chatzichristodoulou and Rachel Zerihan, Goldsmiths College, University of London (7, 8, 9 December 2007).

Tags: 
performance
2d graphic design
Animation
Audio interaction (asynchronous)
Audio interaction (synchronous)
Motion capture
Photography
Streaming media
intimacy
Discipline: 
Dance Studies
Drama and Theatre Studies
By Lydia Horstman at Wed, 30/07/2008 - 16:42

project: The body and mask in ancient theatre space

Grant Holder: Professor Richard Beacham
The project applies advanced 3 dimensional technologies to study the practice of ancient mask theatre. It produces 3D scans of Greek and Roman mask miniatures relating both to comedy and tragedy, and reproduces them at life-size by rapid prototyping. [read more]

project: Siobhan Davies Dance Online

Grant Holder: Professor Sarah Whatley
Siobhan Davies Dance Online is a project that created a fully searchable, online, digital archive of the work of the choreographer Siobhan Davies. In addition to extensive film footage of performances and rehearsals, photographs, programmes etc. [read more]

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