The course was no easy introduction. It covered the full spectrum of professional print design, from page structure, column formatting, typeface relationships, and the use of white space and colour, to advanced techniques including kerning, pull quotes, text wrapping, bleed settings, halftone screens, colour separation, and digital output for professional print production. Students were expected to understand not just how to design, but how to communicate with print professionals, estimate costs, assess proofs for errors, and produce work that met industry standards from the first page to the last. This was not a course about making things look nice. It was a course about understanding how professional publications are built, produced, and sent to print.

The result was a twenty-page luxury travel editorial covering airlines, iconic landmarks, hotels, fine dining, hidden shopping gems, high fashion, and cultural institutions. Every page was written, designed, and produced entirely by me, from a blank InDesign document to a print-ready file built to professional publication standards.