Design thread

Re: Design thread *Updated 12/12*

I didn't even know that board existed until you mentioned it.

What a great resource.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 12/12*

Yeah, it's a cool site. I need to use it more than I do. I post pages on there from time to time too, but usually just my best stuff.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 12/12*

Not to threadjack, but may I post a page? This was on NPD; the designer (not me) is looking for some input.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 12/12*

Awesome CP photo.

The secondary CP photo and the downpage photo are roughly the same size and shape ... need more contrast.

And the right column rail ... whole bunch of text without many entry points (mugs, refers, boxes, etc.)

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 12/13*

A few basic things on this one and then I'll come back to it when I have more time:

The shapes on this page are good, but could be just a little bit better. I think if the Bednarik story on the bottom was stripped across six columns and made a bit shallower it could do wonders. It will keep the story in the newshole from running gray the length of a full column. It will also open up a little more space in the centeripiece, either to make that photo a bit bigger or to inset it a bit and add more white space around it. I think more white space framing the centerpiece package will make it really stand out on a page filled with a lot of starts.

White space is our friend.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 12/12*

Clearly you've got the visual heirarchy down with that great photo, but I think you're lacking the headline heiarchy to match it. I would have liked to have seen the centerpiece headline larger (maybe five columns?). How do you accomplish that? By making the football photo a cropped one-column of the quarterback.

This is a huge pet peeve of mine, but I think you need a rule between the gold photo and the unrelated Buffalo's Burdette story (I'm assuming that it's unrelated).

I think the "injury prone" breakout with the quarterback story is too large and would do just as good of a job at a smaller size.

The "Herd must convert on third down" story is dying for something to go with it, definitely a deck to help the headline, but also graphic material. A good rule of thumb for me, is anytime you make a statement or assumption with the headline, you need to back it up with graphic material secondarily.

This is a good page and a great lead image - one most of us would kill for. I'm being pretty picky with the headline heirarchy on the lede headline, but I like the headline size transitions on the rest of the page.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 12/13*

i'm sure it's style, so not this person's fault, but, does anyone else find those little green things a bit distracting?

and what great art? does that photog want to come work at my place?

but alos with rob, the headline needs to be bigger

overall, though, it's a pretty nice page

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 12/13*

* If I'm interpreting the green tabs correctly, the two stories up top are related.

* Love the main photo, but it doesn't seem to go with the hed. They look more like dispossesed peasants than kings.

* The red circle for "1B" is a nice change of pace. Brought my attention to something I usually ignore.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 12/13*


It's not the designer's fault, as it obviously is the newspaper's style, but those green labels need to hang from the rule, not sit on the rule.

Maybe it just takes some getting used to, but in the current style, the horizontal rule looks like it is separating the label from the package below it. The "pro football" label is almost touching the centerpiece story above it .

The horizontal rule needs to separate the stories. And then the label needs to go UNDER that rule (or, like I said, hang from it).

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 12/13*

DP, we're trying to keep this thread civil, just an FYI.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 12/13*

Why drive charts are good:
They allow you to see at a glance how the game progressed.
It's easier to look at this information than read several grafs of play-by-play.

Some fans do like to "relive" the game. There are others who didn't watch/hear the game and want to know what happened. I don't see a need to run play-by-play and drive charts.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 12/13*

Wrong.

Civil meaning instead of posting your above post, you could have said "I'm not sure I agree with that. Why would you want to divert attention from y our page to the page number?"

Or something of that ilk.