Welcome to your Publication Design course blog. This is where we’ll keep the conversation going beyond our time together at Newhouse and where you can find pertinent course materials as well as inspiration and examples from past years. It’s up… Continue Reading
Lessons Learnt: Content is not just text: Most of us assume that content is just text and that text is the most important part of a publication or a newspaper. No one can deny the importance of text however from… Continue Reading
Three pieces of advice: Work a little bit each time you get feedback. I would suggest that every time you gain feedback from the professor and from classmates, write it all down and that same week, try and find some… Continue Reading
My advice to next year’s News Design class: 1. Start early. Designing a prototype doesn’t take a week, or even two. This class requires a semester-long commitment that isn’t just limited to the week-by-week assignments. Yes, you’re working on color… Continue Reading
Fast Company doesn’t make use of too much furniture. What they do, use, however, is very small, minimalistic elements that are consistent from page to page when introducing features, for example, to help the reader know where they are without… Continue Reading
Most of the furniture that TIME Magazine uses is in the form of lines, carrots and boxes. Beginning with the table of contents, TIME uses lines to separate content, boxes to group similar elements together and carrots to draw the… Continue Reading
Wired doesn’t have too much “furniture” so to speak, but one design element it makes good use of are lines. Just by looking at its color choices in headlines, it’s apparent that the magazine likes the idea of contrast. It juxtaposes… Continue Reading
The most iconic furniture that Rolling Stone uses is the Oxford Rule border that is incorporated either traditionally or non-traditionally in each page. This reminds the consumer of the publication they are reading and ties the content to Rolling Stone. Rolling… Continue Reading
Esquire magazine doesn’t make use of a lot different types of furniture, rather they use the same shape and idea for different elements. The element that they most use is the enclosing of something to make it stand out. Sometimes… Continue Reading
Rolling Stone uses a wide array of image modification for its magazine. On its front pages it uses a combination of cropped circle photographs, silhouettes and rectangular photographs. Some larger pictures have text overlaid and others use pull boxes to… Continue Reading