The Mario Blog

Garcia Media is not just about redesign. We offer unique consulting services in staff training, leadership development, and strategic reorganization.

DESIGN

• Design for news pages (basic and advanced)
• Design for features pages (basic and advanced)
• The redesign process (what the newsroom can expect)
• Visual thinking (for writers and editors)
• Information graphics (planning, reporting and execution)
• How typography works
• Type, design, color and graphics (for copy editors)
• Headline writing and typographic display
• Copy editing, captions and headline writing
• Photographic assigning, editing and integrating
• At-a-glance boxes (breakouts and other points of entry: Layering the news)
• Design on deadline
• Custom design critique (dissecting your pages and process)

LEADERSHIP AND TEAMWORK

• Coaching, critiquing, and leading the visual staff
• Teamwork, collaboration and integration throughout the newsroom
• Clarifying your publication’s values (and the strategies to get there)
• Sharpening the planning process (forms, meetings, mindsets, and other tools)
• Designer/photographer relationships
• Multimedia convergence: (Integrating design from print to web)
• Planning and presentation (for long-term projects)
• Visual leadership and team-building (retreat workshops)
• New content brainstorming and re-thinking the newspaper

CREATIVITY

• Creativity, art direction, and visual problem solving (a hands-on workshop and conversation)
• The art of the simple idea (the impact of creativity, simplicity and surprise)
• Making something from nothing (Can you make a page sing with just a mug shot? Of course!)
• Advanced and illustrative typography
• Workshop for illustrators and feature editors