Invitation card exercise
This exercise is more intricate than the first one.
Make this recto verso invitation card — a two-page document in InDesign. (A Plus Ltd. is a fictitious company.)
The logo, texts, image, a PDF rendering of the above, and a help page — are in qoolcat.fr/down/indesign-ex2.zip.
In the download file, the “Help-Handout.pdf” document contains useful tips.
- Dimensions: 153mm x 153mm plus bleed of 3mm (the above images show the invitation without the bleed).
- Colour red is C M Y K 0% 100% 99% 4% — you should create a colour swatch for this.
- Font is Lato: Light, Regular and Semi Bold.
- Main text is Lato Regular size 8pt with interlinage 11.5pt.
- The asterisk is from the font Wingdings 2, character “à”.
- All dimensions you can estimate, but the result should be almost identical to what you see here.
On the first page, to make the white between the logo and the “Q” in “Quarterly”, you can have a white rectangle placed in front of the “Q” but behind the A+ logo. You do this the other way around on the second page.
When done, export your work as a PDF for offset printing: with PDF preset “PDF/X-1a:2001” and including the bleed and showing both the bleed and crop marks.
If asked to hand this work in, name the InDesign file “YOUR-SURNAME_Firstname.indd” and the PDF “YOUR-SURNAME_Firstname.pdf” and upload as instructed.
Extra
Make this invitation card with your own design but with the same format and information.