|
Online Design & Rethinking | Custom Staff Training/Client Portfolio | Tips, Articles, Resources "Design With Reason" Blog | Bio/Contact   | |||
|
ARTICLES & ESSAYS: DESIGN "Newspaper Redesign: Why? How? Who?" Advice for those considering the daunting task of remaking their newspaper. New: Updated January 2010. "The Elements of Style(books)" Why every newspaper or website needs a design guide. "Visual Thinking for Writers and Editors" Ten (mostly painless) steps for improving the paper through design, graphics, photos and teamwork. Based on a presentation for the National Writers Workshop. "Advice for smaller newspapers" Good design can happen even with limited budget and staff. Here are a few quick ideas. "Fonts for the 50-inch Web" Reducing your web width? Wondering how to select body-text typefaces in general? Here's some advice in an article commissioned for Presstime. Inside the Boston Herald's decision to redesign, as chronicled in an article commissioned for Presstime magazine. "Tips for better design and planning of business sections" Based on a presentation for the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. "Tips for Better Food Section Designs" Adapted from a presentation for the Association of Food Editors and Writers. JUST FOR FUN "Things Never to Say to a Newspaper Photojournalist." "22 Things Never to Say to a Newspaper Designer." By Brenda Shoun, for the ASNE Magazine "The News Designer's Horoscope," a whimsical look at your future in the biz. |
ARTICLES & ESSAYS: CREATIVITY Click here for an interactive quiz with a total of 12 art direction challenges, and the solutions professional art directors chose. Click here for tips for thinking and illustrating more simply yet creatively. TOOLS, ARTICLES & ESSAYS: TRAINING, MANAGEMENT, PLANNING  Downloadable design planning form. Introduce WED (integrated Writing-Editing-Design) in your newsroom! Print it out, revise it to your needs, and use it 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 page design." An article commissioned for the American Society of Newspaper Editors special edition on design  The Wall Street Journal stylebook: Click here for a downloadable PDF of the SND Update newsletter, where I chronicle the creation and implementation of the stylebook created for The Wall Street Journal's redesign. With tips all newspapers can use. (Must have Acrobat Reader. View and print pages 6 thru 9, written by your web host.) "Design management: Why does it seem to be so hard?" Some thoughts for editors, from the front lines. "Six reasons to consider on-site skills training" Just why should you bring in an outsider to help fine-tune the staff? |
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 of journalism, from The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, where I directed the Visual Journalism programs for five years and remain connected and involved as a Faculty Affiliate. You can check out the latest news and gossip about industry movers and shakers 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 our readers need to know about? Email me here. |
|
|
Online Design & Rethinking | Custom Staff Training/Client Portfolio | Tips, Articles, Resources "Design With Reason" Blog | Bio/Contact Updated: September 2008 Email me here
| |||