CREATIVE EVENTS

P7 - InDesign Menu Project

Graphics - InDesign
Essential Standard - 203.01 & 203.02

Essential Question: 
How do you design a graphical product that persuades and audience

through appearance and information like a food menu?

Objective: 
Create a graphically designed dinner menu in InDesign.

 

Assignment: 
You have been hired as a graphic designer by The National Restaurant

Association.  They want you to redesign a restaurant menu for one of their

businesses. You are to follow the directions given by the project manager for

the target audience to complete the project. Once complete then you should

review the checklist for grading criteria before turning in your work.  

Design a dinner menu for a restaurant using InDesign.  There are 2 tutorials about setting up your project in InDesign and the basics of how to use InDesign.  There is an example menu as well. 

You must follow the directions in the tutorial on how to set up your project before you begin, or you will have to start over.  You must make sure you are working in Inches not Picas.

There will be 4 total pages
Page 1 - menu cover
Pages 2 and 3 - graphics and layout of food items, including brief descriptions.
Page 4 - Back Page

Menu must include apps, salads, dinner items, and desserts.

You should model this after a current food chain utlizing their logos and themes, but you are not to copy a menu from any business.

You must be creative in your design and choice of fonts.  
NO MENUS SHOULD APPEAR ON A WHITE BACKGROUND!

Save as an INDD file and as a PDF file.  Submit the PDF file as last + first + menu.  Save the PDF file to your Portfolio folder as well.

Grading Criteria Checklist
 1 - Used Internet to find high resolution images online for the project (NO blurry, pixelated, or copyright info)
 2 - Saved images into Graphics folder to use in graphic editing software
 3 - Menu designed in a manner that is visually pleasing, balanced, and creates an interest in the topic
 4 - All images cut out cleanly in Photoshop and placed into InDesign
 5 - Menu includes: appetizers, salads, entrees, desserts, and beverages
 6 - Font used that is appropriate for the target audience and easy to read
 7 - Menu utilizes business logo and color schemes
 8 - Menu is 4 pages - cover, two inside pages, back page
 9 - Graphic file is saved as a INDD file and exported as a PDF format as instructed
10 - Final graphic file is submitted as a PDF format with the instructed name for the project 

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Setting up your project

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Basics of Indesign

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