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I went out to get soup last night and came back to find I had a new task. We decided going with an evaluative piece (which I cut down from ~70 inches) from the AP on page 3, which readers would see as soon as they opened the paper, rather than blaring the news on the front the day after (though we did run a floorboard tease). For this reason, I chose to go with a quiet, more refined presentation set off from the rest of the page by white space.

Mucho thanks to Josh Barone, who is the best sounding board a girl could ask for.

So far, no one else has run the cuddly iMac photo. Which I think is a shame. It’s my desire to propagate it across the web:

Last week’s project was to produce an online, downloadable component (or ‘Ebook’) for the Missourian’s localized coverage of 9/11, intended for use on tablets and other. The focus is on readability, and learning how to design for the screen is much different than for print, because singular items/stories/packages on each spread remove the need for visual hierarchy between packages.

Sometimes, the designs feel a little “boring,” but doing anything more would be impractical.

The above is my favorite page from inside. I actually asked the photographer, Katie Currid, to go back into the studio and take some shots mimicking the lens flare used on the portraits she had taken of Missouri Task Force 1 members for a feature or splash page of sorts. MUCH more interesting than a flat, black background and also much more engaging than anything I could have mocked up in Indesign to replicate the effect.

Some more pages from inside:

I’ve heard some good things in response to it so far and am excited for future projects! Next time … I will remember to give myself credit on the table of contents and include our publication info. Until next time!

You can download the Ebook from the Missourian, or click here: Sept11_2011.

Tonight I designed two pages on Friday’s final shuttle launch. The fact that we don’t have a Saturday issue means that we’re running the story a day later than virtually every other paper out there, so page 7 also features a retrospective article from the AP. I revisited and updated a Q&A format I used once back in February.

This was also the first time that I’d designed a series of pages appearing together that were not a doubletruck. Good challenge. I was also thinking of and very inspired by the Orlando Sentinel‘s special section on the shuttle program that came out earlier this week. See the whole section on Charles Apple’s blog here.

CENTERPIECE EVERYTHING. Everything. Sorry I have no more intelligent words this evening.

Another day, another page. Here’s a quick, fun centerpiece I did tonight for tomorrow’s Missourian. Proof that even handout art can be fun, too.

Super fantastic exciting news! Apparently there’s a certificate waiting for me at home. Thx, MSUSND! Go check out the rest of the entries, too.

There are so many budget doodles coming its not even funny. In the meantime, here’s one of the recent projects I completed for my former publishing professor. I did these mini-display posters last-minute for him to take to the AWP conference last week. He just emailed me to let me know they went over really well, which is great news!

The design is based off of the cover of Normal People Don’t Live Like This by Dylan Landis. Find out more about Dylan and the book (which is great) at her web site.

If you’re in Columbia, pick up a copy of today’s Maneater, if only for the awesome cover. Or better yet – pick it up and find out how to submit your own bracket and win some sweet prize money here.

Next: get yourself ready for a bunch of new posts because I am back in town and busy like nobody’s business.

Intern application for the paper! I should not be so proud of this. BUT GUESS WHAT. I am.

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