The $17,250 Report

This is one of those design-by-necessity situations. It's late at night, another story falls through and the replacement centerpiece has no art and is all about a single document that is riddled with grammatical errors. How do you make a four page letter into a graphic with 30 minutes until deadline?

You get creative: The solution was to make the document itself a graphic since a large part of this story was about the large price tag on such a short and flimsy document. We had a PDF of the report, but it was locked so the easy solution was to use high-resolution screenshots and create the torn-clipping effect in Photoshop. The elements were laid together in InDesign and a drop shadow was added to give depth.