This week I was assigned to do departments, and these images are from the arts section. I ended up doing arts, scene, endnotes and the TOC.
I liked the secondary where I was able to play with text placement a little more than with some of the straight stories we publish. It was more fun from a design perspective. I also just really like the image from the splash page, mostly because I love coffee and she's holding a coffee mug.
I think that I could have found a better way to break up the two stories, although I am not upset with how it turned out. If I had some more space I would have tried to play with some other things, but I did not have that liberty. Maybe even just playing with the color of the line break would work. Maybe I'll run that by Dayne, I don't know.
I think this week went much better with the iPad. Since I knew what I was doing and what to expect I was able to plan my time better. I also had correct templates to use so I didn't spend 3 hours designing the wrong way. That was definitely a plus.
After doing both departments and features, I think that I prefer the features. There was a lot more liberty to play with design which I really enjoyed. I think when I go back to do the iPad again I'll ask to do the feature.
I'm glad that you got to do the departments this week, so that you're able to see a little bit of what goes into each. Hopefully I'll be able to do a feature for my next assignment so that I can get a feel of what you had to do, too. First of all...I'M SO JEALOUS THAT THEY LET YOU USE PINK. You know the battle that I went through with trying to fit pink into my design last time, haha. But now I see what they're saying. I almost don't enjoy the pink. The number 1 that is on the picture, I can't even distinguish it from the rest of the picture. Maybe a yellow? Since it is right above a flag. Overall, love the look of the clean designs.
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