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.
For this assignment, we had to go around town and find, well, letterforms in the environment. It’s harder then it looks, and requires looking at things in a different way then normal. It originally had a blank background, but our teacher suggested an old paper texture might look better.
Link to high-resolution PDF (11MB).
One of our Graphic Arts 2 assignments was to take 12 landscape photos that exhibit shape. Gave me a chance to get out with a nice camera and lens again. Kandern is so nice in the autumn…
Gallery (uploaded in full resolution)
Yay! I got my new site design up! My Dad and I crunched during the last few days of Christmas break since all our time before was occupied with preparations for my little sister’s 13th birthday. I wanted to impliment sIFR in the post titles, but I couldn’t get them to style correctly, so it’s scrapped until I can figure it out.
The Gallery has not been updated however, and I don’t when that might happen considering it’s a completely different beast. I’ve been toying with the idea of integrating the gallery into the blog using a plugin, but I haven’t found one that suits me yet. But we’ll see…
I’m working on this site slowly, but surly, and as you can already see, it’s improved a great deal. But there are still some little things to work on. There’s also my gallery, but it’s at a lower priority right now. Also, I don’t have our camera right now, so I couldn’t take any pictures of the fireworks on France’s National Holiday on the 14th. Sad.
Howdy,
I’ll start working on this site during summer vacation. Really.
I’m writing this post via Windows Live Writer, the wonderful weblog publishing software that comes with the Live suite of free programs from Microsoft. It does a wonderful job.
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“Something pulled out of the text. Apparently, this is a quotation. Funny, I don’t remember saying this.”
Lol=Lots of links! Here are some great organizational sites you should visit
Lifehacker.com; Unclutterer.com; Zen Habits
I’m getting a Creative Zen 4 GB PMP. Anyone know if when you plug it into your computer, does the internal SD card show up as a separate drive? Or does it not see it at all.
Note that, at the time of writing, I really need to change how links are displayed.
Because “Hello World!” sounds so dumb…
