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:

Throw back pt 1

The images of the three parts titled "Throw back" took a lot of time, blood, sweat and tears (well maybe not blood).

These are only selected pages from a bigger 26-page final project for a publication design course I took fall '09. All the body text is filler. I wrote the headlines and researched my topics.

The topic of calligraphy sparked my interest because I have the habit of being "font happy" until I take a step back. The course made me realize less is better, white space can be to your advantage and to be consistent with a typeface. I had an interest in design (it really keys into my attention to detail) before I took the class and a basic understanding of InDesign, but the course and the instructor's patience really broadened my skills and perspective.

All the Daniel Reeve images are from his site. I did all the cut outs and placement myself. This is just a class project and not meant for profit. I am posting this project to portray creativity and skill. Click on the images for a closer look.

Above is the front page of the magazine project. Pictured is Daniel Reeve, calligrapher and cartographer, who is the main feature of this issue. I created the image by overlaying two copies, one in color and the other in grayscale, and erasing from the top, grayscale layer so the map would come through in color.

After putting in "famous calligraphers" into Google, I came across a site that had some listed. I plugged a few in and I was inspired. Daniel Reeve is a New Zealand native and the creator of typefaces for several movies and extended merchandise. Most notably the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I had seen all the movies (whether I wanted to or not) and it played into my nerdy side as well.

Below are the inside feature spreads about Daniel Reeve. Only the feature spreads pertaining to Reeve have a parchment background.

The spread below is of a side project by Reeve. He is a New Zealand native, and as a cartographer he was asked to replicate the country's founding document for exhibits.

Throw back pt2

Here are two of the department pages from my project. "Art of a New Generation" was suggested as a topic by a friend because of graffiti art. All pictures were copied from online sources. The page below is a department page below for beginners. Click on the images for a close up.

Throw back pt 3

These are some of the feature spreads from my project.

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The pages above and below are features on two of the three main types of calligraphy. I found the zoomorphic to be very interesting.

The spread above was inspired by the main magazine feature on Daniel Reeve as a kind of extra for calligraphers. The movie fonts by Daniel Reeve are protected because of movie contracts, but the typeface on the left page is one that can be downloaded or purchased.