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GR APHIC ARTS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MERIT BADGE SERIES GR APHIC ARTS “Enhancing our youths’ competitive edge through merit badges” Requirements 1. Review with your counselor the processes for producing printed communications: offset lithography, screen printing, electronic/digital, relief, and gravure. Collect samples of three products, each one produced using a different printing process, or draw diagrams to help with your description. 2. Explain the differences between continuous tone, line, and halftone artwork. Describe how digital images can be created and/or stored in a computer. 3. Design a printed piece (flier, T-shirt, program, form, etc.) and produce it. Explain your decisions for the typeface or typefaces you use and the way you arrange the elements in your design. Explain which printing process is best suited for printing your design. If desktop publishing is available, identify what hardware and software would be appropriate for outputting your design. 4. Produce the design you created for requirement 3 using one of the following printing processes: a. Offset lithography. Make a layout, and produce a plate using a process approved by your counselor. Run the plate and print at least 50 copies. b. Screen printing. Make a hand-cut or photographic stencil and attach it to a screen that you have prepared. Mask the screen and print at least 20 copies. 35906 ISBN 978-0-8395-3374-0 ©2013 Boy Scouts of America 2016 Printing c. Electronic/digital printing. Create a layout in electronic form, download it to the press or printer, and run 50 copies. If no electronic interface to the press or printer is available, you may print and scan a paper copy of the layout. d. Relief printing. Prepare a layout or set the necessary type. Make a plate or lock up the form. Use this to print 50 copies. 5. Review the following postpress operations with your counselor: a. Discuss the finishing operations of padding, drilling, cutting, and trimming. b. Collect, describe, or identify examples of the following types of binding: perfect, spiral, plastic comb, saddle- stitched, and case. 6. Do ONE of the following, then describe the highlights of your visit: a. Visit a newspaper printing plant. Follow a story from the editor to the press. b. Visit a retail, commercial, or in-plant printing facility. Follow a project from beginning to end. c. Visit a school’s graphic arts program. Find out what courses are available and what the prerequisites are. d. Visit three websites (with your parent’s permission) that belong to graphic arts professional organizations and/or printing-related companies (suppliers, manufacturers, printers). With permission from your parent or counselor, print out or download product or service information from two of the sites. 7. Find out about three career opportunities in graphic arts. Pick one and find out the education, training, and experience required for this profession. Discuss this with your counselor, and explain why this profession might interest you. GRAPHIC ARTS 3 Graphic Arts Resources. Graphic Arts Resources Scouting Literature Airey, David. Logo Design Love: American Business, Art, A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Communication, Digital Technology, Identities, 2nd ed. Peachpit Journalism, and Photography Press, 2014. merit badge pamphlets Blake, Kathy. Handmade Books: A Step- by-Step Guide to Crafting Your Own Books. Little, Brown, & Co., 1997. Visit the Boy Scouts of America’s official retail website (with Bringhurst, Robert. The Elements of Typographic Style, 4th ed. Hartley your parent’s permission) at and Marks Publishers, 2013. http://www.scoutstuff.org for a complete listing of all merit Brookfield, Karen. Eyewitness: Book. badge pamphlets and other Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2000. helpful Scouting materials Cullen, Kristin. Layout Workbook: and supplies. A Real-World Guide to Building Pages in Graphic Design. Rockport Publishers, 2007. Books Fleishman, Michael. Starting Your Adam, Robert, and Carol Robertson. Career as a Freelance Illustrator or Screenprinting: The Complete Graphic Designer. Watson-Guptill Water-Based System. Thames Publications, 2001. and Hudson, 2004. Friedl, Friedrich. Typography: An Adams, J. Michael, and Penny Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design Ann Dolin. Printing Technology. and Techniques Throughout History. Thomson Delmar Learning, 2001. Black Dog & Levanthal, 1998. AdamsMorioka and Terry Lee Stone. Gatter, Mark. Getting It Right in Print: Color Design Workbook: A Real Digital Prepress for Graphic Designers. World Guide to Using Color in Harry N. Abrams, 2005. Graphic Design. Rockport Publishers, 2008. 94 GRAPHIC ARTS .Graphic Arts Resources Goldfarb, Roz. Careers by Design: Sherwin, David. Creative Workshop: A Business Guide for Graphic 80 Challenges to Sharpen Your Designers. Allworth Press, 2002. Design Skills. HOW Books, 2010. Gomez-Palacio, Bryony, and Armin Vit. Sidles, Constance. Graphic Designer’s Graphic Design, Referenced: A Visual Digital Printing and Prepress Guide to the Language, Applications, Handbook. Rockport Publishers, 2001. and History of Graphic Design. White, Alexander. The Elements of Rockport Publishers, 2011. Graphic Design: Space, Unity, Page Gordon, Barbara. Opportunities in Architecture and Type, 2nd ed. Commercial Art and Graphic Allworth Press, 2011. Design Careers. McGraw-Hill, 2003. Williams, Robin. The Non-Designer’s Graham, Lisa. Basics of Design: Layout Design Book, 4th ed. Peachpit and Typography for Beginners, 2nd ed. Press, 2014. Delmar Cengage Learning, 2005. ———. The Non-Designer’s Type Book. Graphic Artists Guild. Graphic Artists Peachpit Press, 2005. Guild Handbook of Pricing and Wilson, Daniel G. Lithography Primer, Ethical Guidelines, 14th ed. Graphic 3rd ed. GATFPress, 2005. Artists Guild, 2013. Griffiths, Antony.Prints and Organizations and Websites Printmaking: an Introduction to Graphic Comm Central the History and Techniques. Website: University of California Press, 1996. http://www.graphiccommcentral.org Lupton, Ellen. Graphic Design: The This portal site for graphic communica- New Basics. Princeton Architectural tions education and training includes Press, 2008. links to lessons and activities as well as career resources and virtual tours ———. Thinking With Type: A Critical of printing plants. Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students, 2nd rev. and expanded ed. Print and Graphics Princeton Architectural Press, 2010. Scholarship Foundation Website: Olmert, Michael. The Smithsonian Book http://www.printing.org/page/3273 of Books. Smithsonian Books, 2003. This online resource provides information Prust, Z.A. Graphic Communications: about applying for college scholarships to The Printed Image. Goodheart- study graphic communications. Wilcox Co., 2009. Romano, Frank, ed. Pocket Pal: The Handy Book of Graphic Arts Production, 20th ed. Graphic Arts Technical Foundation, 2007. GRAPHIC ARTS 95 Graphic Arts Resources. Vocational Information Center: Photo and Illustration Credits Graphic Arts and Printing Career Guide Collection of the Hebraic Section, Website: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., http://www.khake.com/page27.html courtesy—page 10 (cuneiform tablet) This site provides a comprehensive Hemera Technologies—page 16 listing of links to descriptions of Shutterstock.com, courtesy—pages 4 hundreds of career opportunities in (©Ilike), 8 (©elvistudio), 9 (©Andrey the fields of graphic arts and printing. Burmakin), 10 (hieroglyphs, ©In Acknowledgments Green), 38 (©fredredhat), 40 (laptop, ©Fedorov Oleksiy; camera, The Boy Scouts of America thanks the ©OlegDoroshin), 41 (©Alexandre17), following members of the International 42 (©Hurst Photo), 54 (background, Graphic Arts Education Association who ©Pixsooz), 60 (serif, ©newcorner; contributed their time and expertise to black and white, ©solarseven; icon update this new edition of the Graphic font, ©WimStock), 61 (food fair, Arts merit badge pamphlet: A. Thomas ©yienkeat; concert, ©vectorkat; brain, Loch, John Craft, Dave Dailey, Dave ©Ideas_supermarket; jazz festival, Hayes, Ken Kulakowsky, James Nelson, ©Archiwiz; Brazil, ©alevtina; don’t Michael Stinnett, Ken Stoffregen, James take no, ©Vilmos Varga; work hard Tenorio, and Mike Williams. and go green, ©wow.subtropica; We appreciate Quebecor World, cupcake, ©Catherinecml), 68 Dallas, Texas, and Barron Litho, (©Nucleartist), 69 (camera, ©PY Fort Worth, Texas, for allowing us to Photo), 70 (scanner, ©Sergey photograph their facilities for some Mironov), 76 (©Africa Studio), 82 of the photos used in this pamphlet. (©wavebreakmedia), 84 (©OPOLJA), The BSA gratefully acknowledges 88 (©Arman Zhenikeyev), 89 the following additional IGAEA individuals (©wavebreakmedia), 90 (worker who contributed to previous editions of sitting, ©bikeriderlondon), 91 the Graphic Arts merit badge pamphlet, (©Iakov Filimonov), 92 (press upon which this new edition is based: operator, ©michaeljung; paper Chuck Brown, Michael Cermak, Kevin cutter, ©Grant Blakeman), and 93 Chederquist, Linda Laney, Warren Mack, (©Grant Blakeman) Glen Moerdyk, Edward Prahl, Robert Rateno, Thomas Vogt, Gary Walton, Wikipedia.org—pages 12, 14, and 29 Mark Watanabe, and John Wilson. All other photos and illustrations not The Boy Scouts of America is mentioned above are the property of or grateful to the men and women serving are protected by the Boy Scouts of America. on the Merit Badge Maintenance Task Force for the improvements made in John McDearmon—all illustrations on updating this pamphlet. pages 17–18, 20, 22, 40, and 72 Randy Piland—page 69 (memory cards) 96 GRAPHIC ARTS.