Newspaper Layout
This layout is designed to represent both an externally or internally-published document. Whether it's a monthly newsletter to members of the church or a quarterly publication of a regional magazine, this is meant to show how First Baptist Pinehurst could be represented through professional design and publication.
The design for this layout was copied from an issue of The Pretoria News, a South African newspaper of which my aunt is an editor. I wanted to learn how to create the complex shapes and layouts that were unfamiliar to me.
The hardest part of the design was trying to find space for the info-graphic on a page that already had a lot going on, so I wanted to keep the page balanced by having the images spread out among the text. I learned how to use text wrap and how to fill boxes with placeholder text.
I included the following newspaper elements in my layout:
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Folio
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Flag or nameplate
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Headlines
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Liftout quotes
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Rules, boxes or borders
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2 images, 1 infographic, 1 mugshot
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Cutlines for all photos
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Text
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Gutters
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Jump lines
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Byline
The shape of the text wrap matched the shape of the flowers so there would be no question as to what story the flowers were associated with. I aligned the flowers on the right side because I knew that the reader's eye would move from left to right, the proximity creating a natural connection between the headline and the graphic.
The graphic was the same one used in the poster, creating similarity and familiarity between the two products.
I used the negative space to enclose the lifestyle column and keep it as a separate entity from the info-graphic.
The sans-serif font created a good contrast for the large headlines, and the serif font contrasted well as a content font. The various sizes and order of the fonts showed a hierarchy of importance, with the largest being the headline and the smallest being the captions.
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