Courses/Essential tools for digital publishing
Course Description
Title
Essential Tools for Digital Publishing
Instructor
André Castro,
other possible instructors
Lucia Dossin, Arjen Suiker
Station
Publication Station
About
This course will introduce participants to the essential tools - HTML (content and structure), CSS (style), Javascript (interaction) - for the creation of digital publications. Familiarity with these tools is essential to anyone interested in creating from scratch or build upon existing digital publications, being them a website or an ebook (EPUB).
Because no technology exists in the void the historical context and cultural significance of these tools will be an important points of reference for the course, with examples of Internet art and other experimental browser-based works being frequently presented. In each session participants will develop simple prototypes that put into practice the presented content. As a long term goal participants will be asked to create an experimental browser-based work, that can be everything but a typical webpage. Possible outcomes might take the form of browser-based generative posters, VJing tools, a sound sampler or synthesizers, animations, to mention just a few examples.
The participation in this course it is important for the following kwartaal' s course dedicate to Courses/hybrid publishing, where participants will be introduced to methods for creating a publication with multiple outputs.
Planning
- length: 1 kwartaal
- sessions per week: 1 session per week
- duration of each session: 3 hours
Course Goals
By the end of this course participants should have developed an understanding of:
- The fundamental tool-set of digital publishing, consisting of HTML (content and structure), CSS (style), Javascript (interaction), which will allow them to work expressively and inventively with media, such as ebooks and websites.
- Web's history, and conception as an interlinked documentation system, that exists withing the Internet network.
- the steps necessary to create a website from scratch and explore the potential of this medium. And will understand the role of each one of the essential tools - HTML(content and structure), CSS (style), Javascript (interaction) - of digital publishing.
- use the tools to create experimental works, such as generative posters, VJing tools, sound samplers and synthesizers, animations, to mention just a few.
Previous Publication Station's courses on digital publishing tools
For whom
Graphic Design students or anyone else who wants to become familiar the essential tools for the creation of websites and e-books.
