Design thread

Re: Design thread *Updated 2/4*

"Alot" as one word -- no need to make my point any further.

Shouldn't you be watching the game? All the readers who want a cliche headline, a giant, meaningless number and unreadable reverse type are depending on you and other designers.

 

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From what I'm told, that's never stopped anyone before.

 

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Absolutely there needs to be communication between the two "worlds."

Oftentimes a designer is the first person to look at the first draft of, say, a centerpiece, and since he knows what kind of art and what kind of treatment he wants to give it, it would be journalistic malpractice for him not to be thinking of display type treatment.

The best designer will have some ideas of his own, or he will be flexible enough to tell the copy editor "give me the words you like, and I will try to make them work."

Of course, this doesn't apply to most stories in the paper, but even then, the designer needs to be on top of things.

If it is a complicated or sensitive story, make sure there is a deck or reader . . . even if it clutters up the page. You owe the copy editor (and the reader) that much.

 

Re: Design thread *Updated 2/4*

What's really funny is that I tucked eight other spelling and grammatical errors in that post, none of which the super agile Dye Pack caught.

Talk about failing an editing test!

 

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You know the guy who was correcting your grammar in first grade and then got beat up in the playground? Dye Pack! All growed up!

 

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There's that designer originality and inconsistency again. First he relies on the same "playground" cliche, then he reverses what he just said about failing an editing test. What a designer -- killing two birds with one stone!

 

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At most smaller papers, the copy editor and the designer are the same person. I know at every paper I've worked at it's been that way. Even where I am now, which is the second biggest paper in the state, it's still like that.

 

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If you do a find/replace of "designer" for "terrorist", Dye Pack could be the President of the United States. Except that he would fail the editing test.

 

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and you think the president of the united states would pass it?

 

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Too bad you threw that last sentence in there. The first part was marginally funny, which would have marked a first for you.

 

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Guys, please? For ease of reading and those of us learning something new on almost every page.

I would appreciate it.

 

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OK, you're right. It's getting out of hand.

Besides, the Super Bowl is on once a year, whereas designers trip over themselves every day of the year.