Describes a prototypical course in concrete poetry offered at Princeton University. (RB)

Guidelines for selecting the most appropriate typeface for school publication needs include determine the intended audience; decide which typefaces convey the goal, theme, or message; and select typeface for the time period the piece is meant to reflect. (MLW)

Suggests that the kinds of graphics needed by the print media depend on the cues crucial to the intended meaning of the message. (RB)

Written for students and faculty advisors who are involved in producing the school yearbook, this book discusses and illustrates the contents of a well-made yearbook. The function of the yearbook is examined in chapter one, and suggestions are made for arranging the yearbook according to the basic theme. Chapter two discusses coypwriting for the…

Although improved teaching methods, materials, and technology probably have made university graphics instruction better today than ever before, students need to become more aware of ways in which they can provide cost-effective design to companies and organizations interested in getting maximum value from printing budgets. Such printing economies…

Designed to teach college students how to edit, this book provides an overview of skills required to produce the newspaper, emphasizing the editing of copy, the writing of headlines, and layout and production techniques. The author discusses several theories about how to edit newspapers; the importance of staff organization on metropolitan…

Presents inventive word problems used to teach journalism students printers' math for newspaper design. (HTH)

This study is an attempt to determine what level of artistic perception or art taste is brought into the classroom by students in schools of journalism and whether it can be demonstrated that design instruction can raise the level of artistic perception among journalism and advertising students. It was hypothesized that women would score higher in…

After a 1977 survey reflected the importance of graphics education for news students, a study was developed to investigate the state of graphics education in the whole field of journalism. A questionnaire was sent to professors and administrators in four print-oriented professional fields of education: magazine, advertising, public relations, and…