| Online Design & Rethinking | Custom Staff Training/Client Portfolio | Tips, Articles, Resources "Design With Reason" Blog | Bio/Contact   For the best and most current tips, articles and resources, visit the "Design With Reason" blog with hundreds of entries about publication design and redesign. The below links are archived materials from an earlier iteration of this website. | |||
| ARTICLES & ESSAYS: DESIGN "Newspaper Redesign: Why? How? Who?" Advice for those considering the daunting task of remaking theirnewspaper. New: Updated February 2013. "The Elements ofStyle(books)" Why every newspaper or website needs a design guide. "Visual Thinking for Writers andEditors" Ten (mostly painless) steps for improving the paperthrough design, graphics, photos and teamwork. Based on apresentation for the National Writers Workshop. "Advice for smallernewspapers" Good design can happen even with limited budgetand staff. Here are a few quick ideas. "Fonts for the 50-inchWeb" Reducing your web width? Wondering how to selectbody-text typefaces in general? Here's some advice in an articlecommissioned for Presstime. Inside the BostonHerald's decision to redesign, as chronicled in an articlecommissioned for Presstime magazine. "Tips for better design and planning of businesssections" Based on a presentation for the Society of American Business Editorsand Writers. "Tips for Better FoodSection Designs" Adapted from a presentation for theAssociation of Food Editors and Writers. JUST FOR FUN "Things Never to Sayto a Newspaper Photojournalist." "22 Things Never toSay to a Newspaper Designer." By Brenda Shoun, for the ASNEMagazine "The News Designer'sHoroscope," a whimsical look at your future in the biz. | ARTICLES & ESSAYS: CREATIVITY Click here foran interactive quiz with a total of 12 art direction challenges,and the solutions professional art directors chose. Clickhere for tips for thinking and illustrating more simply yetcreatively. TOOLS, ARTICLES & ESSAYS: TRAINING, MANAGEMENT,PLANNING  Downloadable design planning form. IntroduceWED (integrated Writing-Editing-Design) in your newsroom! Print it out, revise it to your needs, and useit to focus your design and editing planning. (Note: clicking links immediately above will automatically download the PDF. You will need Acrobat to view it. "Training editors in pagedesign." An article commissioned for the American Society ofNewspaper Editors special edition on design  The Wall Street Journal stylebook: Click here for a downloadable PDF ofthe SND Update newsletter, where I chronicle the creation andimplementation of the stylebook created for The Wall StreetJournal's redesign. With tips all newspapers can use. (Must have Acrobat Reader. View and print pages 6 thru 9, writtenby your web host.) "Design management: Why does it seem tobe so hard?" Some thoughts for editors, from the frontlines. "Six reasons to consider on-site skillstraining" Just why should you bring in an outsider to help fine-tune thestaff? | MY PRINT AND WEB EDITING AND DESIGN: [For current redesign case studies, link here.] EXTERNAL LINKS ABOUT DESIGN, JOURNALISM: www.poynter.org: The informative web site about all facets ofjournalism, from The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, where Idirected the Visual Journalism programs for five years and remain connected and involved as a Faculty Affiliate. You cancheck out the latest news and gossip about industry movers andshakers at the Romenesko page. SND Update: The latest news from the Society for News Design. Society for News Design: The newly revamped (January 2010) site promises to feature more articles of interest to news designers around the world. News Artists Organization: The place to hang out, share work, and look for inspiration for infographics artists. Charles Apple on Newspaper Design: Updated with amazing regularity, this blog features redesign case studies, pages of interest, birthdays of friends in the industry, and more. SND Educators Resource Center: Check out syllabi from visual courses around the world, look at featured projects such as Ball State's mobile app (Gannett partnership), and connect with other teachers here. News Page Designer: Review page portfolios from the best and the brightest in the industry. And share your own! Today's Top 10 Newspaper Designs: As selected by the Newseum. You can also view hundreds of newspaper page designs posted daily from around the world, as well as archives, at the Newseum site. Want to suggest a link about news design? A great portfolio ourreaders need to know about? Email me here. | |
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