Daily and weekly section front favorites, August 2013

Daily and weekly section fronts - Favorites 2013, part 2

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Daily and weekly section fronts -- Favorites, 2013

Lately, I have been working for the copy desk section doing the weekly feature sections, Food (a 4-page section published on Wednesdays) and Brazos Life (a 7-page section published in the Sunday editions of the paper). I also do the Region front on rotation. Click on the images for a closer look.

Here are some of my favorite designs:

Special publications in 2012

It's been a crazy year (OK almost two), but I am working full time at The Eagle now. Here are some of the projects I did in 2012.
Honoring Heroes, Veterans tab for 2012 I did all the design, cover and inside pages, copy edited and wrote headlines.

and Aggie Playbook for the SEC, 2012 For the Aggies inaugural season in the Southeastern Conference, The Eagle put out a magazine (on glossy paper!). I designed all pages except for the game board in the back.

And Johnny Manziel: Road to the Heisman. After a whirlwind of a season, not only did the Aggies hold their own during their first season in the SEC, but the youngest player to ever win the Heisman brought it back to Aggieland. On this commemorative issue, I designed the cover and a majority of the inside pages.

Internship pt. 4

Here are a few inside pages from the 16-page spread Back to School issue. I was able to copy them from The Eagle's website. So the ads are there.

A lot of the content was school supply and contact lists, football schedules, etc., and i had to do a lot of reformatting the text to get what I could to fit. I took care to make sure a list or calendar did not cut off in the middle of a school subheading, meaning all the supplies and contacts are there for the school listed. The rest of the schools were put online.

*I tried to include clipart where I could to brighten up the pages and break up the text.


*This page had a triangle ad they gave me the hardest time when giving it enough gutter space. I took care to pay attention to the text spacing along the hypotenuse.

Internship - pt. 3

Here are a few of the inside pages for Land and Livestock Post, minus the advertising. I copy edited, wrote headlines, and did layout design for the 22-page spread. The LLP already had a standard look and format, including its house ads. However, because I did not have the freedom to adjust the ads to the space I needed them to, and the ads just looked to be out of date. So I made some of my own using the photos already on the LLP photos on the server. I learned a lot about QuarkXPress and NewsEdit Pro during the production and became more comfortable with what I had already learned.

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*Notice the house ad on page below

*This is the center spread/main feature. It was on the drought and how the area had seen an unusually high amount of rainfall.

Internship - pt. 2

Here are the section fronts and front page I completed. I not only designed, but I copy edited and wrote headlines. Although, right now I don't remember which headlines I did write.
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Intership - pt. 1

I know it's been a long time and these are a little late, but here is an update on my life and portfolio.

I've now completed the first semester of my senior year, and crunch time is starting to find a job for after graduation.

Over the summer, I completed an internship at The Eagle in Bryan. I did copy editing and layout design. Because The Eagle is not a large newspaper, I feel like I had more opportunity to learn and be useful. I earned the opportunity to work on and design a few front pages for the region section and even a front page.

After a month of working at The Eagle, I was asked to design the July 1 issue of Land and Livestock Post, a bimonthly, agriculture publication. A month later, the editor asked me to help out and do the inside pages of the Back to School issue.