The news doesn't stop for rolling black outs

So, in light of the rolling black outs last week, classes were canceled Wednesday, but putting out Thursday's paper was not. Luckily for the Star team the electricity stayed on all afternoon and through out the night.

Because Wednesday was also National Signing Day for football recruits, the back sports page featured a special design done by the design editor. Therefore, in the true spirit of team work, I jumped on in copy and design to help out. On this particularly long Wednesday night in the office, that started at 11:30 that morning, I designed the front page.

The design editor finished with sports and took back over the front page to put in some minor tweaks, but the overall idea of placing the black out story on the empty hallway photo was mine. The photo editor dropped it on the server, and it inspired the design.

As managing editor, I tend to have my hand in almost everything, but it was nice to have something in regular production to look at and know that I did it, which is one of the reason's I started this blog. After four years of headlines and stories, everything starts to get jumbled.

I wrote the headline for the dominant story too. Click the image to get a closer look.

San Marcos Stars

Here is the San Marcos Stars issue of the advertising supplement Satellite. I oversee the production of Satellite for The Star. In this issue, readers previously voted online at universitystar.com who their favorite local business is for a particular category.

In this particular issue, and why I am posting this, I designed the entire issue myself, front to back, minus the ads, in a very long day. Usually design on Satellite is done by the graphic designers. I also did quite a bit of editing on this issue. The cover is a play off of the house ad that was done by the advertising coordinator. When coordinating these issues, I like to try to use the same theme from the promotional house ads to make the whole product come full circle.

It's a labor of love. Therefore, I'm posting the whole issue. Click on the images to get a closer look.