KAREN WAS GIVEN A SHOT at designing a recent special section. Ed thinks she did a pretty good job of it. Take a look at the following pages, then see Ed’s note at the bottom.
FROM KAREN:
I was given free rein on the project but I was pressed for time. Wished I had a week to do a proper layout; not three days.
I know you’re busy – I’m not in a hurry, but I would like to hear your thoughts.
FROM ED:
Karen seemed a bit timid about submitting the section for Ed Henninger’s Blog—until Ed told her he thought she had done a pretty good job with it, and her work might inspire others.
1. The cover is clean and simple, with good typography. The best part: no clutter.
2. The vertical “section headers” inside are a good idea…and they reflect the simplicity of the cover.
3. Love the bugs!
How would you improve on this? Give us your thoughts!
I think you did a great job!
You can never go wrong with a dog on a lawn mower.
I like the headline fonts. Is that Formata?
I like the boldness of the standing section heads (“home”, “garden”, et al).
No, the font is Frutiger.
I enjoyed the section as a whole, and the section headers do tie it together nicely. It’s too bad more of the ads weren’t in color.
“It’s too bad more of the ads weren’t in color.”
Yeah, don’t we all wish that?
I love the bugs. They make me want to swat them.
Great job! I wish we got even three days to work on things like this. If we are lucky we can start design elements the day before.
Plan…design…plan…design. Hmmm…any relationship here? The first step to good design is good planning. And if you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Great job!
Count me in on liking the bugs, nicely done. And I like the cutting on the other pages to give cuts an interesting nontraditional home.
The garden headline separation from the copy got me at first, maybe shorter hammer and a sub, but that’s just my preference in that situation.
The bugs actually make me itch while I’m reading. Which I guess is a good thing, design-wise.
The section headers on the side threw me for a moment, as I mistook them for ads. By the third page they didn’t seem so strange.