Not only writing skills...

[Stan Schwartz <stanz -at- cam -dot- org>]

All,
I have been asked to teach a course "Graphic Design for 
Non-Designers" at a local night school. The aim is to help technical 
writers with related material not normally included in the 
curriculum. Can you offer suggestions for course content/exercises 
that might be beneficial in such a course? What did you wish you had 
learned when you were in school that you discovered you lacked when 
you had finished?

Some suggestions so far:
- How to use a grid system to ease page layout
- How to avoid moire in rescanning screened images
- Colour harmony concepts
- How to avoid 'widows and orphans' in page layout.
- How to develop an idea visually - thumbnails > roughs > 
comprehensives (comps)
- Cropping and scaling images
	... yours?

Thanks in advance for your time and energy.

	stan

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