Feb. 9th, 2004
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Oh wow. I think I just had an intellectual orgasm.
I just got to spend the past three hours talking about design - what works and what doesn't work with our current redesign. And I had the nerve to tell folks what I thought worked and didn't. I stood up and asked, "Why did we do this?" And people listened to me. I think I got my immediate editor a bit upset when I asked why our department didn't have a prescence in the daily budget meetings (we don't), but I got really excited talking about the visual presentation of the paper.
After the roundtable, we did one on ones where we talked about our sections. We shared ideas with the man who did our redesign, etc. Since I wasn't here when the redesign was implemented, this was all new to me. When we were over and Jan and Jen stepped out, I asked Ed - our redesign guy - about a few ideas I had that I knew I couldn't suggest to Jan. I knew what the answer would be, that we just don't have the time to do some of my suggestions. Because it *GASP* would promote the features and metro departments actually working TOGETHER and that seems to be a big no-no!
Ed loved the ideas and encouraged me to speak to Steve, our executive editor about them. He said that Steve told him earlier that one of my really good assets was that I had a fantastic eye for design and I wasn't afraid to question what went on a page. Wow....I could not keep a goofy grin off my face. I had so much extra energy that I had to take a walk to calm down. It was too cold outside so I did a few laps around the press room. ::grin::
Ed is going to encourage to Steve that we need to hire a presentation director. You know what? My chances of getting a position like that are diddy-squat. But I can at least ask him about it. And when we do get one, I will absorb all I can from him or her. Wow...I am completely excited about this.
I just got to spend the past three hours talking about design - what works and what doesn't work with our current redesign. And I had the nerve to tell folks what I thought worked and didn't. I stood up and asked, "Why did we do this?" And people listened to me. I think I got my immediate editor a bit upset when I asked why our department didn't have a prescence in the daily budget meetings (we don't), but I got really excited talking about the visual presentation of the paper.
After the roundtable, we did one on ones where we talked about our sections. We shared ideas with the man who did our redesign, etc. Since I wasn't here when the redesign was implemented, this was all new to me. When we were over and Jan and Jen stepped out, I asked Ed - our redesign guy - about a few ideas I had that I knew I couldn't suggest to Jan. I knew what the answer would be, that we just don't have the time to do some of my suggestions. Because it *GASP* would promote the features and metro departments actually working TOGETHER and that seems to be a big no-no!
Ed loved the ideas and encouraged me to speak to Steve, our executive editor about them. He said that Steve told him earlier that one of my really good assets was that I had a fantastic eye for design and I wasn't afraid to question what went on a page. Wow....I could not keep a goofy grin off my face. I had so much extra energy that I had to take a walk to calm down. It was too cold outside so I did a few laps around the press room. ::grin::
Ed is going to encourage to Steve that we need to hire a presentation director. You know what? My chances of getting a position like that are diddy-squat. But I can at least ask him about it. And when we do get one, I will absorb all I can from him or her. Wow...I am completely excited about this.
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