Election night, for me, is better than the Super Bowl. That statement holds especially true for page design because of the exciting challenge to quickly assemble a front page that will quickly summarize the most important local, statewide and national results.
There's also the added competition of the 24-hour news cycle and the Internet, so when you're putting together a menu of results you've got to show the information clearly and efficiently.
Work on this front page began - almost two weeks before it was supposed to run - with a simple brainstorm about what type of coverage our readers would want.
Because we serve a college-age demographic, I assumed that many readers would be interested, but would have not had the time to follow the results. The paper was split into three tiers of coverage (local, state-wide and national) and all the graphic elements were pre-designed and ready to be filled with information.
The Congressional balance graphics and the state ballot measure result graphics were designed in Illustrator, textured in Photoshop and composited with text elements in InDesign.
Auntie's Notes was badly in need of an update when I moved aboard with company. The publication had solid content but was presented poorly. The first step was to pick a uniform font and style book. The emphasis is placed strikingly on the words and letters with liberal use of handsome drop caps.
