Design thread

Re: Design thread *Updated 2/4*

that white on light background type on the lower right is disconcerting even with the dark outlines

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 2/4*

I like these for the most part, but I don't like the black bars with the score and logo at the top. The bars may have looked all right without the logos, but the logo looks a little weird with the light colors on a dark background. Maybe go without the logos or use a different color for the bar and score type.

Other than that, I like the idea. Considering how bad Pittsburgh looked in the first half, it's cool to show quarter-by-quarter stats and highlights to compare how the game changed.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 2/4*

That's a damn good point. Thanks. We normally have white-on-red color "subject" bars on each page, and did these just for the game. We very well may have overdid it.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 2/6*

Shotglass, I think the content on there is really cool. The stats (a step beyond what some papers would do), and the scores add a lot of nice info. You picked the right photos, they're cropped well and I love the symmetry. It ends up having lots of impact in your tabloid format.

I would agree that the color use is a little much (between all the reverse-out black throughout and the sand-colored screens behind everything), and detracts from your nice art choices.

But overall, it's a fine example of breathing some life into the same ol' quarter-by-quarter thing.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 2/6*

That's usually something to strive for. The readers tend to want things like that.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 2/6*

Good lord. Can you ever NOT be a dick?

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 2/6*

The room seems to be grumpier today.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 2/6*

I'd be a lot less grumpy if -- just once -- you'd bring something constructive to a discussion without resorting to cheap shots and sarcasm.

I'm not holding my breath.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 2/6*

Constructive like "Way to focus on the content"? Isn't that what's supposed to happen?

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 2/6*

Runaway Jim, sleep soundly with the knowledge that you are one of hundreds of others on the Internet who hate Wordhawk/DyePack. But your hatred of him feeds him, like a nice, hot Eggo waffle in the morning. If you don't hate him and just ignore, then he has to eat that Eggo without syrup. And everybody loves syrup.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 2/6*

You know, an Eggo sounds awfully good. But I don't have any syrup with me right now.

I think in junior high, I used to eat them dry. Our toaster didn't do them justice, though. The edges were burned, and the middle was frozen.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 2/6*

The edges were burned, and the middle was frozen.
Not unlike your job prospects, Wordo.

Now, on to the pages ...