A front page that’s good for the sole
So, have you seen today’s Daily Herald of Arlington Heights, Ill.?
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Daily Herald news editor Neil Holdway writes:
As part of our ongoing coverage of LeBron James‘ possible move to the Chicago Bulls, we put basic and fun facts about James on our front page, including an actual-size image of his shoe.
The design work was done by our news/art graphics editor, Tim Broderick.
…with a photoillustrating assist from intern Kelly Mantz of Illinois State University.
Hey, at least it wasn’t printed with scratch-and-sniff ink!
Fun stuff! Download a full-sized PDF version here.
Average daily circulation for the Daily Herald is 111,539.

July 1st, 2010 at 9:05 pm
They keep shrinking the size of the page, and pretty soon you won’t be able to do something like this life-size…
July 2nd, 2010 at 3:36 am
Nice job by my former paper. I wonder if newsstand sales increased with this dramatic presentation.