This week in design

This week was a big one for my design brain! Last week, my high school’s newspaper advisor passed away. As a former editor and someone who was very close with him, the news was incredibly sad but it also gave the old staff an opportunity to commemorate him. The current editor, another former editor, and I reached out to dozens of people our advisor, Mr. Lowe, had worked with over his 31 years at the paper. We ended up curating a 16 page newspaper full of memories and art dedicated to Mr. Lowe and as the only person with access to the necessary computer program, I designed and laid out the entire thing. It was an incredible experience to design the paper as a way to honor the incredible man Mr. Lowe was but it was also a really great way for me to channel some of the design elements we’ve been working on and discussing in class. The one I think of first is the element of color and relation between objects. On one page, which I do not know how to share here but I’ll link the paper here (the pages with this design are pages 4 and 5). I used the image in black and white and typed the first parts of the headline (Rodney K.) in black with the final word (Lowe) in a bright blood orange so that it popped off the page in relation to everything else. The way in which the words interacted brought the entire image together and helped ground the pages by using the story itself at the bottom of the overall image.