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Mike Higdon

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Joined: 12 Oct 2006

Posts: 19

Location: Reno, Nevada

Posted:
Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:51 pm

I'm looking for a critique on my A1 pages, specifically the first two, however, feel free to berrate anything else.

This is my first month as a designer and I'm trying new things with A1 instead of the same old boring crap that we all see every day. As a weekly paper, I have the luxury of doing that each week, because if we were a daily it would become difficult to make something special each day, plus it would no longer be special (kind of like the "special" effects in Star Wars III).

I like the horizontal design of the drug page because that picture makes it work. But my news editor was complaining that he wanted a rail along side of the picture instead. My argument is that that mucks up the cleanliness of the page and distracts from the picture.

Go here:

http://www.newspagedesigner.com/portfolios/portfolio1.php?UserID=10441

Thanks,
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tom lynch

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Joined: 21 May 2004

Posts: 15

Location: Union Leader, Manchester, NH

Posted:
Thu Oct 12, 2006 9:32 pm

Hey Mike,

Very nice work for a beginner -- wish some of the experienced folks I know had this kind of portfolio.

I like the two fronts. The drug package works well, but it's not clear to me whether the picture is a setup or if it's a real cokehead doing real snorting. If it's the latter, I think I'd have tried something to make it look a little less straight news-ish.

I like the graphic on the college package. I'm intrigued by the odd shapes on the pix. I would like to see a little more white space (or a rail or drop in info graphic as in the drug package) in the text area -- it's a little gray and dense down there.

I also like that you stuck with standard fonts for these packages. I wasn't wild about the art-font choices on the middle-row pages. The bottom-row pages are very cool!

tom

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