Design thread

Re: Design thread *Updated 4/2*

You're overanalyzing it. "Small pond" doesn't have to mean the small pond of the worn-out cliche (big fish in a small pond). This really has nothing to do with the cliche, which is why it works.

"They are now the small fish" --- exactly what the graphic showed.

"Small pond" simply means they now reside in a place (pond) nobody pays attention to (nobody even fishes in). Big-market teams/contenders play in the big pond. The Royals and Marlins and other teams with zero payroll and zero chance chance play in the small pond. No national TV games. No playoffs. Etc.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 4/2*

This is, for sure, a comment on me and not on any of the wonderful artists above, but I'm just not a fan of preview covers that are actually drawn/sketched/painted. I was really disappointed when I opened the PD last Sunday and it was an illustration.

:-\

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 4/2*

I wanted an illustration for our cover. Got a photo instead. At least for us, it didn't work.

 

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The Marlins cover is great.

 

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Let's start from the top. Not sure what the style is there, but I'd much rather have a cut-out of Campbell in top refer, than a tired, old Masters logo. Next, the Red Sox head is fine (not sure about the subhead though, Clement didn't exactly start out on fire yesterday); but if you're going to go that overboard with the head size, and since you don't have any body copy on the page, just put the head over the photo (I have to assume there's enough dead space in the raw image to manage that. And (this is not your fault) that is WAY too big an ad to be on Page 1 of your kind of paper. That ad's too big for a BROADSHEET, which you, assuredly, are not. That is all.

 

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I like the choice of dominant photo, and the decision to do a little cutout for his helmet at the top. Not sure about the crop out of the foot, but if the pic came that way, nothing you can do about it.

I'm having a little trouble with some of the elements in the Wells box. It looks like the top of the "also inside" box and the photo are not level, which they should be, and the "Wells off..." text should be centered within the space allowed, not automatically shoved far left. It's too close to the box edge on the left and there's trapped space on the right. Finally, no shaded box should touch an unconnected element. Put 12 points between the box and the rule above the ad.

I do like the discreet cutouts on this page and the Sunday page. It makes the images pop without making them gaudy.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 4/2*

Damn, this thread died. :

Not sure about the headline placement in the Cardinals' gamer, etc. Don't like the art in the NFL story below, either. Mugshots?



Here's the hometown paper of the team Carpenter shut down yesterday...I like it. (No comment on Mr. Patrick)

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 4/20*

I'm always leery of running type as a part of a live photo like that.

I know photogs can be pains to deal with sometimes, but I'd have a hard time telling a shooter/photo editor that I thought it was a better idea to Photoshop a headline behind a live photo they shot from a game rather than letting the image run full.

Of course, this is a case-by-case basis. My rule of thumb is usually if it's shot live for a game, I don't fuss with the image at all (type on a photo, cutout, etc.).

I'm also not a fan of giving a feature-type treatment to a live gamer.

The centerpiece on the Post-Gazette page has a lot of pop.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 4/20*

As far as the NFL package goes on the top piece, I think you need at least a subhead or something between those photos and the copy.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 4/20*

Why? There's already a subhed at the end of the headline, and the reader's only being asked to move his/her eyes down an inch. I might go with a drop cap, something to pull the eyes back to the left after scrolling all the way to the right on the hed/subhed and the line of photos, but there comes a point when there's too much headline on a story.