At the beginning of the school year, in my Graphic Arts class, one of the things that was planned for us to accomplish was a redesign of our student newspaper The Chronicle. I was very excited about this, since it delivers good content, but with a lousy layout and typography. I couldn’t wait to get started. It was the first big project of the year, and with only 2 people in class, I knew it wasn’t going to be easy. We started brainstorming various changes we could make, critiquing previous issues, and learning a lot about newspaper layout and design at the same time. Working on The Chronicle entailed lots of back-and-forth between the Journalism class (who writes and publishes it) and us to figure out if we were meeting their needs. Near the end of the process, it was really coming down to the wire with delays in content and printer issues, but me managed to get it out on time. The reaction was very positive from the student body. Next issue, we’ll try to make the online version in color!
Here is an older issue that you can compare to (links to PDF: 676KB)
This one has been on hold for a while, due to technical issues with getting the page layout of PDF version corrected. It came out on October 28th, but hasn’t been fixed till recently.
Click here to download PDF (1.9MB), or use my local mirror.