One more design project

Information to use

The document needs to be an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. You have all of the copy. Go crazy.

Edition 4 Article Ideas

Please post your ideas for the second edition of the year. Be sure to read the other ideas BEFORE you post your own. You can elaborate on another person's post (with a citation, of course). Be specific and try to format each idea as such:

Article Idea:
Must interviews:
Why will people want to read this:

Article will come out January 7. We will close this edition BEFORE December break, but will hand it out the first day AFTER break.

Week 11

1. A fantastic piece on Nelson Mandela. What's compelling about this? The subject. A great read about a great man.

2. Ask a Fourth Grader. That's what ESPN magazine did in a Pittsburgh town. This is a cute fluff piece with a good angle. What do you think of this video? Is there a fun issue like this we could cover at MA? Are you smarter than a freshman? Smarter than a SF dweller? Smarter than Travis?

Edition 3 — Friday's in-class work

Typography powerpoint — please watch carefully as you will have to utilize this information in your own design project.

Typography assignment — due at the end of class

How to make an InDesign document

Some other hot tips about InDesign: palette 1, palette 2, palette 3

Edition 3 Editor Goals

Please post 3 goals you have for your section. Reflect on the last edition, areas where you have the most to improve and areas where you're doing great work. These goals can be design related, deadline related, or anything else. BUT, make sure these are measurable, outcome goals.

Headlines, please

Please post your article headlines here. Make it clear what your article is & what section it belongs in. Please post 3-4 options ranging from 30-50 characters in length. Remember, spaces count as characters.

Week 10 — Welcome November

1. Here's an interesting piece from the Wall Street Journal about alimony (payments one spouse makes to another after a divorce). This may seem like a somewhat adult article, but I was struck by the tone created by the interviews or lack thereof. hhhhmmm. I've talked about editorializing, but can you skew an article with a selective usage of quotes? Is there a bias present in this piece? If so, to what side oes it bend? If not, how does the writer maintain objectivity with such a heated topic?

2. An interesting read from Slate Magazine. It's about the Northwestern pilots that missed the airport, among other things, and about distracted driving. Where are we headed in an autopilot world? What do you think of the format of the argument? It draws heavily on news from other sources. Does that work well? Is there a smooth flow to the piece?

Share your insights, brilliance and wisdom.