Students of the University of Granada will have access to the different rooms of a virtual publishing house where they will meet the publisher, the writer, the productor, etc., and they will have to respond to their requests in order to prepare a book, thanks to a teaching innovation project that reproduces in a virtual way the whole work and creative process of a piublishing house and a printer´s.
In addition, the project includes a «tutorial» with the most common computer programs in document design and students will be able to asses their knowledge. The aim of the project is, according to the person in charge, María del Carmen Hidalgo, “to overcome the technological and physical barrier that prevents Fine Arts students from being up to date in document production mechanical processes with images and texts”.
The project, coordinated by Professor María del Carmen Hidalgo Rodríguez, is made up of a team with lecturers Jesús Pertíñez López, Javier Arteta, Arrue, Mar Garrido Román, Francisco Caballero Rodríguez and Ana García López; as well as students Carmen Lloret, Eugenio Marqués and Ana Marqués.
According to the responsible for the innovation project, which has already been approved by the Vice-Rectorate for Teaching Planning, Quality and Evaluation, “the main objective of this program is to allow students to get to know all the phases of the preparation process of an illustrated book, from texts that arrive in the publishing house to the moment when the book to enters the market”.
According to the members of the group, “it is difficult for a graphic design student to work with real applications and the devices and tools whch you can find in a modern publishing house-printer´s in the classroom, for the lack of time and space.” And they add: “we intend to virtually reproduce a publishing design workshop and the student must go round its different sections once he has overcome a phase successfully.”
Further information: María del Carmen Hidalgo Rodríguez
Department of Design. University of Granada
Phone number: 958-242919
E-mail:hidalgor@platon.ugr.es
