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News Design School
http://newsdesignschool.com
NewsDesignSchool.com is for journalists at small daily and weekly newspapers who are interested in improving their newspaper design skills.
- Added on: Oct 16th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Bob
- Listed in: News & Media Education
- Tags: newspapers design training design lessons news design newspaper design newspaper layouts
Recent Posts
Fixing an InDesign quirk
Customizing InDesign and other programs makes your life much easier. Going over your Preferences selections is an easy way to make sure the program is optimized for the way you work. One of the mini-bugs (not really a bug, but if it “bugs”...
Newspaper headlines: serif or sans?
Earlier this week I ran a poll here to discover which type group was more favored for newspaper headlines. The results? Serif: 57% Sans serif: 29% Other: 14% You know you are a designer if the thought of playing around with different typefaces make...
Newspaper design and typography: headlines
POLL: What’s your favorite? One of the most important — and for me most fun — decisions you make when doing newspaper design is to choose your headline typeface. Back when I first got interested in newspapers, most used either Futur...
3 things you must do right now
As a writer and freelance editor and designer, one thing I am very good at is creative work avoidance behaviors. From checking my e-mail to hitting the kitchen for a snack to re-arranging my sock drawer, I’ve done them all. At least twice. That...
3 things you must do right now
As a writer and freelance editor and designer, one thing I am very good at is creative work avoidance behaviors. From checking my e-mail to hitting the kitchen for a snack to re-arranging my sock drawer, I’ve done them all. At least twice. That...
Newspaper design tip: baseline grids
Part of the beauty of good newspaper design lies in the typography, part in the use of color and visuals, part in the coordinated placement of elements to enhance the transfer of meaning. But none of that can take place without a good foundation: the...
