Describes a project used in a senior information design class where the students created their own self-portraits on rubber stamps through the use of Photoshop and QuarkXPress. Explains that the students learned about the difference between line art and continuous tone images as well as the effects of printing ink and papers. (CMK)

The Association Supporting Computer Users in Education (ASCUE) is a group of people interested in small college computing issues. It is a blend of people from all over the country who use computers in their teaching, academic support, and administrative support functions. ASCUE has a strong tradition of bringing its members together to pool their…

Colonial printers were more or less forced to take sides during the Revolutionary era. As they did so, their social status changed from that akin to mechanics to that of spokespersons of a social movement. From this time on, the gradual separation of editor from printer formed a social basis for defining a journalist's tasks as editorial, not…

Summarized in this document are the proceedings of a public hearing sponsored by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Board of Regents in order to provide a forum in which publishers, editors, paper manufacturers and distributors, printers, biomedical researchers, librarians, and other professionals concerned with preserving the biomedical…

The papers in this compilation were drawn from a 1977 conference on book publishing in Wisconsin. Following introductory remarks, the five papers in the collection deal with the following topics: (1) the history of Perishable Press, which specializes in publishing hand-made books; (2) the role of the publishing firm Wisconsin House in the…

This description of the scope, legal deposit basis, preparation, and printing of the Singapore National Bibliography since its inception in 1967, provides insight into the searching tasks and editing processes involved in planning a retrospective bibliography, and proposes a chronologically inverted printing scheme for pre-1967 imprints, to be…

The New York newspaper strike of 1978 was the direct result of a series of events that started in 1923 when the pressmen's union established a system that provided a minimum fixed number of pressmen per press unit and legitimized a loose labor pool. From that time, the number of pressmen increased through family-dominated union management that…

Several intermediate performance objectives and corresponding criterion measures are listed for each of 13 terminal objectives for an intermediate printing course. The materials were developed for a two-semester (3 hours daily) course with specialized classroom, shop, and practical experiences designed to enable the student to develop proficiency…

Several intermediate performance objectives and corresponding criterion measures are listed for each of 17 terminal objectives for a secondary level basic printing course. The materials were developed for a two-semester (2 hours daily) course with specialized classroom and shop experiences designed to enable the student to develop basic…

This instructional package, one of four designed for use by regular and low reader vocational students, focuses on the vocational area of graphics. (Low readers are identified as those reading at a grade 3-6 level.) Contained in this document are fifty-seven learning modules organized into two units: composition and paste-up. Examples of module…

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…

This book reviews the research in the field of typography as it affects children's books and sets it in the context of research on reading. The contents include five chapters: "Problems of Definition and Measurement" discusses the various measures of legibility used in research studies. "The Reading Process" examines three…

This document briefly outlines methods for planning the high school yearbook from staff selection through final printing. After a way of determining the layout of the yearbook by sections is presented, procedures for budget planning, additional costs, yearbook promotion and sale, photography, design, copy, and binding are discussed. The document…

This book is a guide to teaching media literacy. Among the topics discussed are the following: (a) the use of a can as an example of media (included is a description of the basic can curriculum or "CANalysis") (b) how to devise media classes so that potential critics (parents, administrators) can appreciate the classes without judging them; (c)…

This report is believed to be the first nationwide attempt in more than three centuries of printing in America to define graphic arts manpower needs. The objectives of this study were to determine the current status of industry manpower and to predict manpower needs for the 1970's. To carry out these objectives two questionnaires were developed, a…