Design thread .... v.2

OK, my position paper on this ... if anybody EVER sees anything I have done which they would like to duplicate for their pages, feel free NOT to give me credit for it. And I mean that sincerely.

Next step is to do something that people would want to copy...

 

Dammit! How can you poke fun at someone if they're already self-deprecating? Foiled again by shotty!

 

Owned.

 

OK. Someone else post something now. I've got nothing. I don't do design anymore.

 

I just started a new job, so I've been kinda busy/unable to scour NPD as much as I'd like. Give me a couple weeks. :-\

 

Super page layout. Nice job Doc.

 

All right, gang. This thread died a slow and painful death, so I'm going to try to bring it back. What follows is the four sports pages I did this week (this is a 7K weekly rag in the suburbs) after our big local HS won a state softball championship. Every other team we covered had already been eliminated from the playoffs (or didn't make the playoffs at all) and there was no other breaking news worth reporting, so I went big with this thing and tried to hit it out of the park. It was the first state championship in school history, which dates back over 100 years. Also worth mentioning is that the team that won the championship was barely over .500 during the regular season and came from behind to win 4 of its 5 playoff games. Also, most of the HS sports teams I covered this year were mediocre or worse, so this was easily the story of the year.

I borrowed an idea or two along the way, but ultimately I'm pretty proud of this thing. I'd just like to hear what other people have to say. Did I overplay this? Too many photos? Stories too long? Too one-dimensional? What say ye?

 

Super front, Bob. You really had great art and you let the story speak for itself. No complaints.

Page 2 suffers because you have a lot more great art competing against one another and awkward ad placement. Would have loved to see you run some of the jump or the sidebar on that page with art because by the time you get to the last page it's all text.

But in all a really good job. Buy your photog(s) a beer. S/he earned it.

 

Thanks, wb. I totally hear where you're coming from. Going in I was pretty set on doing one of the inside pages as a photo essay, but the ad stacks weren't really conducive to it. In retrospect, I should have scrapped the idea of putting all (or most) of the photos on one page and instead split them up between pages 2 and 4. It would have broken up some of the copy as well.

 

I also think your front is a good example of what you can do with good, dominant art. You had some really good photos and you resisted the temptation of throwing five or six of them all on the front. You found the one or two that really told the story and that's why it's such a good front.

I think any photographer would tell you they'd rather have their best photo run really big than have it run small with a bunch of other OK photos.

 

I echo W-B; that's a super cover. However, the hammer and subhead sound too much a like. I may have gone with a different hammer.

 

True Dat.