ARTTECHES NEXUS • GRAPHIC DESIGNING MASTERY
- ARTTECHES NEXUS • GRAPHIC DESIGNING MASTERY
- DAY 21
- Day-21 — Video Script: Business Cards (180-min lesson)
- Follow scene by scene — narration plus screen cues.
- Instructor: Ali Akbar Shah
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- 0:00 — INTRO, face cam or title slide
- “"Assalam-o-Alaikum! Welcome to Day 21 of Graphic Designing Mastery. I am Ali Akbar Shah. Today we enter the world of print design — and we start with the smallest, most common print job in the world: the business card. By the end of today, you will set up a print-correct card, design both sides, and export a PDF that any print shop can use. Let's begin."”
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- SCREEN CUE: Show a printed business card close-up, then...
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- 2:00 — SIZE, BLEED, SAFE AREA
- “"First, the three zones. The standard card is 3.5 by 2 inches — 89 by 51 millimeters. But we never design exactly at that size. We add bleed — 3 millimeters of extra background on every side — because the cutting machine is not perfect. So our working page is 95 by 57 millimeters."”
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- SCREEN CUE: File > New; Layout > Page Size; type 95 × 57...
- “"See the red rectangle? That is the trim — where the cutter cuts. The blue one is the safe area — 5 millimeters inside. Rule: backgrounds go out to the bleed, words stay inside the safe area."”
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- 6:00 — CMYK
- “"Second rule of print: we design in CMYK, not RGB. Your screen makes color with light; the printer makes it with ink. Press F11 — Uniform Fill — and choose the CMYK model. Type your values. For small black text, use plain black, K 100, so it prints sharp."”
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- SCREEN CUE: F11 > CMYK sliders; fill a test square.
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- 8:00 — FRONT SIDE DEMO
- “"Now the front — the identity side. Full-bleed cream background. A simple logo mark drawn with the Bezier tool in warm brown. The name 'Crumb & Craft' in a serif font, 14 point, centered. Tagline in italic, 7 point, and a thin gold rule. Everything centered, everything inside the blue safe zone."”
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- SCREEN CUE: Build the front live: rectangle, F11 cream;...
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- 14:00 — BACK SIDE DEMO
- “"Back side — the information side. Layout > Insert Page. Brown background to bleed. Then a clean text block, left-aligned, inside the safe area: name, title, phone, email, address. Name biggest, details smallest — that order is called hierarchy. A small cream logo in the corner ties both sides together."”
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- SCREEN CUE: Build the back live on page 2.
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- 20:00 — PREFLIGHT CHECK
- “"Before export, three checks. One: any photos at 300 dpi? Select the image, Bitmaps > Resample, and look. Two: every color CMYK? Press F11 on each object and check the model. Three: guides on — backgrounds reach the edge, text inside the blue box?"”
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- SCREEN CUE: Run through the three checks on screen.
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- 23:00 — EXPORT
- “"File > Publish to PDF. Choose a PDF/X preset — that is the print-shop standard. Check the Prepress tab for bleed settings. Export both pages. Open the PDF at 100 percent. Both sides, correct size, nothing cut off — that is a print-ready card."”
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- SCREEN CUE: Publish to PDF dialog; open finished PDF.
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- 26:00 — CLOSE
- “"Your assignment: design a two-sided card for the fictional GlowCare Salon — brief and specs are in Daily-Assignment.md. Submit the CDR and the PDF. In the next lesson, we scale up: flyers and posters. Allah Hafiz!"”
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- Script Complete
- ✓ Record each scene in order.
- ✓ Speak the narration, perform the screen cue.
- ✓ Keep the learner watching — show, don't just tell.
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