Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Vox: Showboat feature
Here's my feature this week for Vox:
There was a lot of text to work with, so I kept the design simple. I did have to trace the Playbill to get my headline. It just goes to show, you can put in hours of work on something most people will assume you got off the internet.
I like the red, and the borders around each section. I was proud of the copy fitting in such perfect boxes.
There was a lot of text to work with, so I kept the design simple. I did have to trace the Playbill to get my headline. It just goes to show, you can put in hours of work on something most people will assume you got off the internet.
I like the red, and the borders around each section. I was proud of the copy fitting in such perfect boxes.
News: WEEK FOUR (June 14-16)
Tuesday's Second Front:
Here I was working with a LONG story. Long copy. Long graphic plus a photo. The photo isn't that interesting, but if I played it smaller, the graphic would compete for dominance, and It wasn't interesting enough to have that dominance. It was an alright page.
Wednesday's 1A:
For the first time, I was not happy with the page. The centerpiece headline isn't large enough, and isn't really a feature. The bottom photo screwed up my grid and it's hard to tell what story it belongs too. I'd rather just throw this page away.
Thursday's Second Front:
This was much better. First time I had two photos on the second front. I liked playing garden at the top, and the centerpiece on the old lady wasn't really exciting, but did get the dominance I wanted.
Lesson of the day: You can move life stories to the JUMP page! (making it someone else's problem) Seriously, on Thursdays we have issues...the combination of Andrene (the 1A designer), the ACE and myself always leads to at least three obits coming in AFTER budget, screwing up my page. Today, I just pushed them over to jump, oh the joy.
Here I was working with a LONG story. Long copy. Long graphic plus a photo. The photo isn't that interesting, but if I played it smaller, the graphic would compete for dominance, and It wasn't interesting enough to have that dominance. It was an alright page.
Wednesday's 1A:
For the first time, I was not happy with the page. The centerpiece headline isn't large enough, and isn't really a feature. The bottom photo screwed up my grid and it's hard to tell what story it belongs too. I'd rather just throw this page away.
Thursday's Second Front:
This was much better. First time I had two photos on the second front. I liked playing garden at the top, and the centerpiece on the old lady wasn't really exciting, but did get the dominance I wanted.
Lesson of the day: You can move life stories to the JUMP page! (making it someone else's problem) Seriously, on Thursdays we have issues...the combination of Andrene (the 1A designer), the ACE and myself always leads to at least three obits coming in AFTER budget, screwing up my page. Today, I just pushed them over to jump, oh the joy.
