TAKEAWAY: Some basic structures help clarify what story goes with what photo or illustration. Pure Design download today shows you the way. AND: Jacky’s Sunday Reads takes us through the best of today’s Bild Am Sonntag PLUS: The New York Times and the business of wine—the days of wine and print are here
Pure Design download #30, “Shapes of information.”
I have always found it much easier to teach beginning newspaper/magazine designers about basic shapes or structures, which package a story together. Usually, the components are going to be a photo/illustration, a headline, text and secondary elements. Ideally, a rectangular shape is what boxes these elements together, but perhaps the most difficult of the elements to maneuver around is always the text. Recommended structures: L-shape, U-shape. Read more about it in today’s Pure Design download.
The days of wine and print
Those who love reading The New York Times while enjoying a glass of their favorite wine are in for a rare treat.
The Times just launched its newest profit-making initiative—http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/business/media/14times.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=wine&st=cse. The New York Times Wine Club will send you a selection of wines one to three times per month, along with food recipes for pairing with the wine from the archives.
The story in the Times about this development made no bones about it : “Looking for alternate ways to make money as its advertising revenue plunges, The New York Times Company announced on Thursday that it was getting into the wine business.”
Strange bedfellows perhaps, wine and newspapers, but apparently others have gone there as well, The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Forbes already have their own wine clubs.
The Times offer the following to its wine club members: Wine Club Benefits, according to its website:
a) Hand-selected wines from boutique wineries around the world
b) Expert wine tasting notes with recipe pairings from The Times
c) Related wine, food and travel articles from The Times
d) Convenient shipments sent to your home or office
I see this as an ideal extension of the newspaper’s coverage of food and wine, which has always been helpful, inspiring and very fuil of good tips.
If the Times’ wine “bodega” is as delicious as the logo introduced for this new endeavor, we are buying.
Jacky makes his Sunday picks
This Sunday Jacky liked a double page spread about the come back of the dinosaurs In London, it is a dino craze as thousands (half a million tickets already sold) want to see this animated show.
Front page of Bild Am Sonntag for August 16, 2009
Jacky also picked the graphic showing the motorcycle injury which has kept car race driver Michael Schumacher from returning to Formula 1 racing.
Who is Jacky?
Jacky belongs to Frank Deville. The Luxembourg-based pooch is an “avid reader” of the German newspaper, Bild Am Sonntag. Here is Jacky’s pick of stories and interesting graphics in Bild Am Sonntag today.
Pure Design: Download entire section: Type
Download entire first section of Pure Design: Words
Now that I have fully presented the first of six sections of Pure Design on TheMarioBlog, I am offering the entire initial section, “Words,” available for download—all 33 pages of it. This may be useful for those of you saving or printing out Pure Design and will be done following each of the remaining sections. At the end of our journey through words, type, layout, color, pictures, and process, I will publish the entirety of Pure Design in one file.
WAN’s World Trends 2009 Report
The 2009 edition of World Press Trends from WAN/IFRA is now available. I always like to review this report for its complete information on global circulation, advertising and online trends in our industry. All countries in the world where daily newspapers are published are covered in the publication.
This year the WAN/IFRA folks have decided to publish a print version but only make the book available on pdf.
Those interested go:
http://www.wan-press.org/forms/wpt2009.html
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