Design thread

Re: Design thread *Updated 3/15*

As I already said, I tend to just skip over Schneider's comments, partially because he's inane and partially because he's gone out of his way to violate forum rules.

Then I read it later and decided to give ol' Schneid a jab for his joke. I don't think that comment is all that terrible.

Back to the jerseys: Now we're back to what "looks cool" over accuracy. Maybe having a row of 8 white jerseys would be distracting. But it would be accurate. If the Strib wants to have only four white jerseys, that's fine. But placing that decision into some sort of bell jar that can't be opened, can't be touched and has to remain under glass is again an example of what's wrong with the "It looks good, so it has to be right" approach.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 3/15*

OK, here's the thing: I said I liked it like it is. Just because I said that doesn't mean you can't say you don't.

Your basic statement was that the jerseys were the wrong color, but it read like you didn't know why. I was trying to clarify.

If you don't like the jerseys, then say 'I think it's misleading' then move on. It's not like they colored jerseys in a game photo. It's a graphic illustration, it works for me. Period.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 3/15*

the section is for the entire tournament, not the first round

if it plays out as planned (yeah, i know, it never does, but...) all the other teams other than the 1s would wear their colored jerseys over the whites

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 3/15*

I think it's fine the way it is, but it might be better with some changes.

Ultimately it fails anyway because it has absolutely no peg or specificity to this year's tournament other than a few of the teams in the field. Anyone could do this and post it on a Web site, but it wouldn't get the play it has here because it's not burned onto thousands of sheets from dead trees. I can guarantee that 99.99 percent of the readers are not hanging this page on the wall and marveling at it. They're turning to the inside for the capsules about the teams playing in the tournament.

When 75 percent of the page can be recycled and used year after year after year, it ain't that innovative. Sorry, eye candy worshipers. It's a newspaper, not a picture to frame.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 3/15*

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Re: Design thread *Updated 3/15*

Request time:

Could you find us a page (or pages) that you think are good? Can be your own, can be someone else's. You don't have to find one right away, anytime from now to the end of April will work. Because I'm really curious to see what the right answer is, demonstrated visually.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 3/15*

To the tune of "No Sex in the Champagne Room":

Can't use logic with DyePack
Can't use logic with Wordhawk
Doesn't matter what you say
His fuel is being a prick

Only thing that you can do
to destroy his evil powers
is root for Air Force Academy
to upset the Illini

If Dee Brown was a sports designer
wearing his orange headband
DyePack would turn his man crush
into a diatribe about why the current decline of newspapers is all the fault of the newspaper design mentality (that line's a little tough to pull off)

The best way to deal with Dye
other than challenging him to a freestyle rap contest
is to just ignore his words
and realize that he's never going to change because he craves all of the personal attention that comes with all of his prickish contrariness

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 3/15*

Wow, that was awful.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 3/15*

But then again, we wouldn't know for sure, because everything's one color with you.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 3/15*

No, I think it's safe to say that rap was terrible. And the "root against Illinois" strategy is a tired one.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 3/15*

Still can't deny that you don't have much good to say about anything.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 3/15*

I don't know about that. My lunch was good today.