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Design job

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Design, Layout & Proofing · department 3 of 3

You build the pages that get printed. In on Thursday. Names spelled right. Nothing missing.

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Design, Layout & Proofing

Build it from the Design Bible

Everyone builds spreads. Design builds more, and proofs the rest.

01Do this1 of 7

Instructions

One thingIn on Thursday. Names spelled right. Nothing missing.

You own sections of the book, and you build the pages that get printed.

Design: this is your jobThe Design BibleYou build it and you build from it. The modes, the type, the color, and what a proofer checks. It’s on the Design test.Read it →

Every checkpoint

  • Week 1
    Plan your spreads: layout, photo list, writing angle. (Build a Spread.)
  • Per checkpoint
    2 passes. Everyone else owes 1. CP1 is extra long, so Design owes 3 and everyone else owes 2. A pass is a V1 or a V2.
  • Per checkpoint
    Proof someone else’s pages. (Proof a Spread.)
  • Weekly
    Update the page board honestly. A stuck page goes on the board as stuck.
  • Ongoing
    Keep the templates and the style rules up to date.
  • Chairs, week 1
    Sign off on your department’s plans.

Every spread, in order

  1. Open the Design Bible. Pick the mode for this spread. One mode per spread.
  2. Set up the file. 17.25 × 11.25, 300 dpi, CMYK, guides locked on top.
  3. Draft, two signatures, V1, proof, V2. The Loop.
  4. Names: roster, then what the student goes by. Check both.
  5. Check your work: hold your spread next to the seven parts and the Design Bible. Anything missing is your to-do list.
  6. Turn it in. Thread, Drive, Walsworth.
Everything gets proofedSomeone else checks every page before every checkpoint. Spelling names right isn’t a style choice. It’s the job.
A stuck page doesn’t announce itselfThat’s why your chair asks you every day what page you’re on and what’s slowing it down.
Two passes a checkpointEveryone builds spreads. Design just builds more.
02Compare yours to it2 of 7

What it should look like

A finished Design week is a page board that tells the truth.

1 · THE PAGE BOARD · SPORTS SECTION · CP1 · Wed Oct 21PLANNED22-23 Cross countryJordan Ldraft postedSIGNED26-27 Girls golfPriya S2 SIGNED, buildingV1 UP24-25 VolleyballGianna Cproof: Mateo R, due ThuV2 DONE20-21 FootballMateo RWalsworth, Drive28-29 TennisJordan LWalsworth, Drive123HONEST BOARD: THE STUCK PAGE IS ON IT. 2 PASSES EACH THIS CHECKPOINT + 1 EXTRA FOR CP1.Every spread follows the Design Bible. One mode. The right faces. Names checked twice.
Every spread on the board, at a named stage, with a name on it. The stuck page is on there too.
  1. Every spread in your section is on the board at a stage: planned, signed, V1 up, V2 done.
  2. Every V1 has a proofer’s name and a due date next to it.
  3. Your own two passes are moving, and the one you handed off at V1 has someone else’s name on it now.
  4. Every page follows the Design Bible: one mode per spread, the right faces, no dots under body copy.
03The picture3 of 7

Visual guide

The board, the Design Bible, the specs. Three things you check against, in that order.

The board

Where every page is. Updated weekly, honestly. Your chair reads it daily.

The Design Bible

How the book looks. Modes, type, color, what a proofer checks. style.html

The specs

What the printer needs. 300 dpi, CMYK, bleed, gutter. Page Specs

The seven parts

What a spread needs. Main photo, captions, folio, and the rest. The picture

one mode
left page and right page, same mode, same faces

A spread is one thing. The reader never sees a seam.

ransom note
comic mode on the left, clean mode on the right

Two modes on one spread goes back. It’s the first thing a proofer looks for.

04The teaching4 of 7

Lesson

What you own

Sections of the book, and the spreads in them. Use Photoshop, Lightroom, Walsworth, Canva, or whatever gets it done right and to spec. Every designer also checks someone else’s pages before each checkpoint. Chairs sign off on their department’s plans and keep the templates and style rules current.

Relays

You can hand off a spread at V1 and start your next plan. Someone else takes it to V2. You both get a pass. Never hand off a DRAFT: nobody can build from a plan they didn’t make. Your chair makes the match, not you.

The Studio’s 17 spreads

Graphic Design builds 17 spreads for the book. They land as V1s at CP5 (Feb 25). From there, finishing them is Design’s job: all 17 to V2 by CP6 (Mar 18). Plan for it. February is not a light month.

Why your chair asks every day

In this department, problems stay quiet. A page gets stuck, nobody says anything, and it shows up at the checkpoint. What page are you on, and what’s slowing it down? Answer it honestly and the chair can fix it on a Tuesday. On Thursday there’s nothing to fix with.

A Design page is
  • Built from the Design Bible: one mode, the right faces
  • Names checked twice
  • Proofed by someone else
  • On the board at its real stage
A Design page is not
  • “I’ll fix the captions later”
  • Built in RGB because Canva was faster
  • A page that’s been “almost done” for two weeks
Your chair asks you one question every day

What page are you on, and what’s slowing it down?

05A real one5 of 7

Example

A Design daily report that told the truth.

Priya S · Tue Oct 20 · #design
On 26-27 girls golf. V1 due Thu. Slowing me down: no team photo, the one in Drive is from last year.
Asked Outreach for a reshoot Thursday at practice. If it doesn’t happen I’ll run the action shot big instead.
[screenshot: the spread at 70%, caption boxes empty, main photo placed]
Why this gets a 5

Which page. Where it is. What’s actually slowing it down, named. A fix already in motion, and a backup plan if the fix doesn’t happen. Screenshot attached. The chair read this in 15 seconds and didn’t have to ask anything.

06Where it goes6 of 7

How to turn it in

How to turn it inThe board, the thread, the report

Design work is turned in three ways: spreads in #yb-proofs (the Hand-In), the page board updated every week, and your daily report in #design with a screenshot.

  1. Daily: 30 seconds in #design, page you’re on, what’s slowing it down, screenshot.
  2. Weekly: the page board, honest.
  3. Per checkpoint: 2 passes posted in #yb-proofs. 3 for CP1.
  4. Per checkpoint: one proof, as a reply in someone else’s thread.
Open #design ↗ Checkpoint Thursday, 12:58 PM (start of 4th period). Daily report every class day.
07How it is scored7 of 7

Rubric

Role is 20% of your grade, graded monthly: did your tasks happen (cadence), and were they good (craft)? Chairs get a third check: how their department did.

Check1 looks like5 looks like
On timepasses at the checkpoint, proof the next classOne V2 on Friday. The proof you owed came in the morning of the checkpoint.Two passes in before the Thursday bell. Your proof posted the next class.
Correctnames, specs, the Design BibleA misspelled senior. Two modes on one spread. RGB. Text in the gutter.Names checked twice. One mode. CMYK. Nothing in the spine. The proofer found nothing.
Completeseven parts, the board, the reportSpread missing captions and a folio. Board says “done” on a page that isn’t. Three daily reports in two weeks.All seven parts. Board matches reality. A report with a screenshot every class day.

5 is ready to print. 4 needs one round of fixes. 3 does what was asked. 2 is a real try. 1 is barely started. 0 is missing.