Techniques & Design of Written Information

This course provides a global vision of the technological process of journalism and magazine production, both in printed and digital formats. It analyses the typography and the role played by the design as a visual expression of communication media and an essential element to reaching access to their contents. Theoretical and practical knowledge of layout and design of formal and aesthetic aspects in written, audiovisual and digital formats, paying more and special attention to the use of the graticule, color, computer graphics, and insertion of multimedia elements, tools with which the students will be able to create their publications. Capacity and ability to communicate in the language of each communication medium, whether it is the press or new digital media (Internet) through hypertexts.