Creative Producing and Entrepreneurship
Module 5
Graphic Design and Desktop Publishing
6 Courses
Graphic Design Platform: Coursera Institution: University of Colorado Border Started: 17/09/2016 Finished: 01/09/2020 Photoshop CC 2018 Essential Training: The Basics Platform: LinkedIn Institution: LinkedIn Learning Started: 07/03/2018 Finished: 02/06/2018 InDesign CC 2018 Essential Training Platform: LinkedIn Institution: LinkedIn Learning Started: 30/06/2018 Finished: 06/07/2018 Ebook Foundations Platform: LinkedIn Institution: LinkedIn Learning Started: 09/03/2018 Finished: 05/05/2018 Learning Ebook Publishing Platform: LinkedIn Institution: LinkedIn Learning Started: 08/03/2018 Finished: 09/03/2018 Learning Metadata for Book Publishing Platform: LinkedIn Institution: LinkedIn Learning Started: 09/05/2018 Finished: 10/05/2018
1 Book
Ape: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur: How to Publish a Book Author: Guy Kawasaki & Shawn Welch Publisher: Nononina Press Published: 2013 (first published December 4th 2012) Started: 08/09/2014 Finished: 13/06/2017
“Graphic designers use desktop publishing software and techniques to create the print materials they envision. The computer and desktop publishing software aid in the creative process by allowing the designer to try out various page layouts, fonts, colors, and other elements.
In the 1980s and 1990s, desktop publishing put affordable and powerful digital tools in the hands of everyone for the first time. At first, it was exclusively used to produce files for print—either at home or a commercial printing company. Now desktop publishing is used for e-books, blogs, and websites. It has spread from a single focus—that of print on paper—to multiple platforms, including smartphones and tablets.“
Jacci Howard Bear, Desktop Publishing vs. Graphic Design, lifewire.com, 10/02/2020
Graphic design is the art or skill of combining text and pictures in advertisements, magazines, or books. Desktop publishing is the creation of documents using page layout software on a personal (“desktop”) computer. Desktop publishing software can generate layouts and produce typographic-quality text and images comparable to traditional typography and printing. This technology allows individuals, businesses, and other organizations to self-publish a wide variety of physical and digital content.
Graphic design and desktop publishing were two loose ends from my undergraduate studies that I carried over into my postgraduate explorations.
Both graphic design and desktop publishing can save you a lot of money because you can do them yourself, but they are only worth doing yourself, if you can use their techniques and technologies properly.
The self-publishing of books and ebooks was something I wanted to become especially acquainted with because I have ambitions to publish my own factual and fictional works.