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ART
493 SMP 1/ ART 333 Adv. Research and Writing for SMP Document
Books All SMP studio students are required to create and
publish a PDF book that documents their SMP 1 experience. The contents of
this document book will include but is not limited to various assignments completed
throughout the semester. Required Content (for details on each item see
individual assignment sheets)
Optional: Additional content might include; your ideas about
art-making, working definitions, images of your artworks (see technical
parameters section below) images of things (artworks or other) that inspire
you with brief commentary, quotations, edited journal entries, summer work,
etc. You are free to order what goes where and are urged to add commentaries
to documents to retrospectively contextualize their content and or offer
updates. All books must have a table of contents, introduction,
and a strategy for organizing/ unifying bookÕs content in a way so that the
book communicates a sense of your voyage through your SMP 1 experience, not
just a collection of unconnected documents. All material (text, ideas, images) in this book must
always be correctly cited. This book should be written as a MS word doc with
embedded images and then saved as an optimized PDF file for inclusion in on
your SMP website (See technical parameters section below) Document
Book Steps Step 1: Planning Due
Nov 12 Review example document books (available on class Bb
site) and devise a strategy for organizing / unifying your bookÕs content.
Share ideas with all seminar members. Step 2: 1st Draft Due Nov 24 Assemble a first draft of your book, share with
classmates and get feedback. These drafts should include: 1.
A narrative description
w/ table of contents that addresses your strategy for organizing and unifying
your bookÕs content 2.
All required entries (see above) (except introduction see #3 below) 3.
Introduction and Additional
content: You need not write out
all of the additional content and your introduction BUT you MUST either write
a synopsis, annotated outline, or rough draft for each (with extra effort on
your introduction) 4.
Illustrations (either a
final image or placeholder image to see what images you need to gather) Step 3: Full text version (nothing missing) emailed to
Lisa for editorial comments Due Dec 1 Step 4: Revise
your book in response to my comments and create final PDF file. These PDFÕs
will be posted on the exhibition site and available as a hardcopy in the
gallery. _________________________________________________________________________ Technical Parameters for Creating Document Books 1. Create your document book in
MS Word Layout:
Establish a standard system for your text layout including: á Line spacing: single or 1.5
spacing á Font size: body text should
probably be sized at 10-12 pt. á Paragraph style: Indented first
sentence OR line between paragraphs (but not both) á Headings and sub-headings: create
a consistent system for headings and subheading including font, font weight,
alignment, and most importantly, spacing before and after each heading. Images:
Insert images using the Insert> Picture> from file command. á Size images correctly before inserting
them into your page, do not resize them in MS word to make them fit because
it drastically increases document size. á The image size in MS word is a
function of the print size (not pixel dimension) so size images to have a
resolution of 150 ppi with a H x W that matches the space you want them to
occupy on your page (usually never more than 6Ó wide to allow for margins). á It makes it extra easy if you
take the trouble to make your captions part of the image. Page
distribution and printing economy: á Please do not leave lots of extra
white space (i.e., a page per each entry). There is no reason why one section
canÕt follow the next on the same page (use heading spacing effectively to
mark the distinctions between sections. á Keep your books to under 40
pages. á These books will be printed
double sided BUT leave a blank page after your cover page so the table of
contents is not on the back of the cover. Content
reminders: See above for the list of what your document book must contain.
Some other things to rememberÉ á Your research pieces must be
correctly footnoted. á All images must have full info
(artist name, title of work, medium, and image source if taken from a book or
internet. This goes for your images also (at least title, date, medium,
dimensions). á Page numbers: Use page numbering
with no numbers for the first 3 pages (i.e., numbers show up only after table
of contents) (can be found at
ÔInsert>Page Numbers>formatÕ. You need to change the page number
placement because the default placement of .5 from page bottom can get cut of
in PDF format. You can do this from the menu ÔFormat>Document>from edge
footerÕ. Create a Print and Web PDF á Always retain the book in MS word
format for editing. You will submit a MS word version and a PDF version. When
uploading your MS WORD version on your drive DO NOT USE the convert option
(on google drive screen: upper right settings icon/ little gear >upload
settings> Ôconfirm setting on each uploadÓ á To create the PDF use the print
dialog on a Mac ÔPrint> PDF (lower left corner)>Save as PDFÕ. á To optimize (reduce file size):
Open the PDF on a computer that has a copy of Acrobat Pro (comes with the
Adobe CS software) and do a ÔSave AsÕ. Under the ÔformatÕ pull down select
the PDF, optimized option. Use the setting button to the right to set the
parameters. For printing I use a max 150 ppi medium quality jpeg. But for web
pdfs might go as low as 100 dpi. If you add tons of color photos, making the
file size bigger we will be forced to optimize at a lesser quality to keep
download times down.
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