Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Critique: March Department pages
Short Talk: 3/16 Critique
I haven't done a lot for Short Talk in a while, mostly because I'm scheduled at the end of the semester, but anyway this weekend I was able to be creative on both of my pages!
I was in charge of the Think Tank's matching game for scientists....which was fun because it allows me to not follow the grid, and sharpen my web-grabbing skills.
The editors initially gave me three photos, but I decided I wanted to use images of all ten scientists so 1. people knew who these people were and 2. to make the page more visual. Because I was playing the images so small, I had a little leeway about the size of the photo I used, they could be smaller than normal. The hardest photo to find was Doc Brown from 'Back to the Future,' there are no images of him on the web, probably because it's copyrighted or something.
I played around with spacing, and found if I staggered the photos I could fit all ten images on the page without reducing their sizes. I am happy with the spread, and will probably put it on my portfolio to show my mad formatting skills.
The second page I did was the Scene & Heard narrative, which initially was pretty boring. That entire page puts me to sleep, because it's ALWAYS a horizontal photo with text, and possibly a pull-quote.
This week I had an illustration to work with, which spiced things up a bit. Debbie found me after I had turned in the same old S&H grid and gave me more leeway with the design by letting me text wrap the story around the image. I love how it looks, it really connects the illustration to the story, making them seem connected. Text wrapping also gave me more space, so I could play the image larger on the page, and it turned a really boring grid into something exciting. This will also prol make it in my portfolio.
I haven't done a lot for Short Talk in a while, mostly because I'm scheduled at the end of the semester, but anyway this weekend I was able to be creative on both of my pages!
I was in charge of the Think Tank's matching game for scientists....which was fun because it allows me to not follow the grid, and sharpen my web-grabbing skills.
The editors initially gave me three photos, but I decided I wanted to use images of all ten scientists so 1. people knew who these people were and 2. to make the page more visual. Because I was playing the images so small, I had a little leeway about the size of the photo I used, they could be smaller than normal. The hardest photo to find was Doc Brown from 'Back to the Future,' there are no images of him on the web, probably because it's copyrighted or something.
I played around with spacing, and found if I staggered the photos I could fit all ten images on the page without reducing their sizes. I am happy with the spread, and will probably put it on my portfolio to show my mad formatting skills.
The second page I did was the Scene & Heard narrative, which initially was pretty boring. That entire page puts me to sleep, because it's ALWAYS a horizontal photo with text, and possibly a pull-quote.
This week I had an illustration to work with, which spiced things up a bit. Debbie found me after I had turned in the same old S&H grid and gave me more leeway with the design by letting me text wrap the story around the image. I love how it looks, it really connects the illustration to the story, making them seem connected. Text wrapping also gave me more space, so I could play the image larger on the page, and it turned a really boring grid into something exciting. This will also prol make it in my portfolio.
// posted by teresasanserif @ 9:17 AM 
