InDesign Typesetting: Design a Restaurant Menu

Your layout choices dictate what the viewer reads – you set the priorities on the page and your design guides the reader through it. In Adobe® InDesign Typesetting: Design a Restaurant Menu, Michael Stinson will help you master the concepts of organization and prioritization.

Michael Stinson is the creative director at Ramp Creative and the instructional director for TypeEd. In this class, he’ll share fresh insights experienced designers can use to bring more polish to their work. 

You’ll learn about:

• Establishing typographic hierarchy
• Working with tables
• Using multiple typefaces
• Organizing and prioritizing content

Using a restaurant menu as a launching point, you’ll explore best practices for setting type in Adobe® InDesign. Michael will help you improve file set-up and workflow to ensure maximum legibility.

No matter which version of Adobe® InDesign you use, you’ll learn techniques that will give greater definition to the hierarchy you are trying to create. You’ll be better prepared to layout every project, no matter how complex.

Software Used: Adobe InDesign CC 2014.2

• Overview of Tables and Tabs
• Six Types of Grids
• Using Tabs and Tables
• Analyzing Menus
• Content Planning
• Creating Hierarchy with Style and Font
• Arrangement with Margins and Spacing
• Character and Paragraph Styles
• Embellishments and Finishing the Menu