Charles Apple

Dean Lockwood of the Express-News of San Antonio writes:

We got a little edgy and decided to recap the week of Democratic speechifying by doing a display page capturing a cross-section of various quotes.

I came up with the concept (after thinking “You know, this is an event, a week, that is ALL about words.”)

Adrian Alvarez came up with one mockup. Nan Keck suggested the shotgun-of-quotes approach Adrian ultimately developed it.

Idea came Tuesday night. Adrian mocked it up Wednesday. Our editor, Robert Rivard, took one glance Wednesday afternoon and decided, “Let’s do it.”

Spent some time today going through various quotes with editors — decided to keep it to people who spoke or were delegates at the convention. Kept in some not-necessarily-positive quotes, though this is obviously the Democrats’ page.

Very cool, Dean. And a keepsake for those blue-leaning folks out there.

Um, all three of them. In your particular area. No offense intended.

The page runs Friday. Dean adds they intend to give the same treatment to the GOP convention next week.

For a larger look, whack the thumbnail:

See more of Adrian’s work in his NewsPageDesigner gallery. Find Nan’s pages here.

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Meanwhile, Denver Post graphics editor Jeff Goertzen not only created this cool full-page diagram that ran before the convention began last weekend…

…but also he posted in his Facebook gallery a few photos he took Wednesday on the convention floor:

See more of Jeff’s graphic work in his NewsPageDesigner gallery.

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