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This the link to my portfoilo on News Page Designer, a website where designers can share their front pages and critique them against others. I was showing it to a friend of mine tonight, who is the editor of a 30,000 circulation weekly in Tampa. He was impressed! Squee!!
Then, I noticed there had been two comments left on my Columbia front. I checked them out. One said this:
"Megan, one of the best-designed papers in the country is the Jacksonville, IL, Journal-Courier, my old paper. Circulation is around 20,000. The State Journal Register in Springfield is continually knocking on their door trying to steal the market. Circulation and staff size aren't the key to good design. Creativity, good typography and balance are. Have the guts to take over the whole page for the big story. Empower yourself to be a great designer and you will be. Learn from what's good here and in the SND annual. Your work shows promise. Don't let the bosses or your perception of what the bosses want keep you down. "
Double squee!! Here's the other comment:
"There's good stuff about working at small papers, too. Foremost among them, I think, is the ability to effect change, which I think you're doing at the Times-Journal. The last time I seriously took a good look at the paper was last spring while I was waiting around in the AU journalism department for some reason or another. What I see in your portfolio, in contrast with what I saw then, is a really big improvement. "
TRIPLE SQUEE!! I'm sooooo happy! I think I'll go float around on cloud nine for awhile.
This the link to my portfoilo on News Page Designer, a website where designers can share their front pages and critique them against others. I was showing it to a friend of mine tonight, who is the editor of a 30,000 circulation weekly in Tampa. He was impressed! Squee!!
Then, I noticed there had been two comments left on my Columbia front. I checked them out. One said this:
"Megan, one of the best-designed papers in the country is the Jacksonville, IL, Journal-Courier, my old paper. Circulation is around 20,000. The State Journal Register in Springfield is continually knocking on their door trying to steal the market. Circulation and staff size aren't the key to good design. Creativity, good typography and balance are. Have the guts to take over the whole page for the big story. Empower yourself to be a great designer and you will be. Learn from what's good here and in the SND annual. Your work shows promise. Don't let the bosses or your perception of what the bosses want keep you down. "
Double squee!! Here's the other comment:
"There's good stuff about working at small papers, too. Foremost among them, I think, is the ability to effect change, which I think you're doing at the Times-Journal. The last time I seriously took a good look at the paper was last spring while I was waiting around in the AU journalism department for some reason or another. What I see in your portfolio, in contrast with what I saw then, is a really big improvement. "
TRIPLE SQUEE!! I'm sooooo happy! I think I'll go float around on cloud nine for awhile.
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