Web Design • News Design • Sports Design • Feature Design • Non-news Design
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Web Page Designs:
PDFs of the Index and Resume pages from my old portfolio site, written with HTML and CSS in Adobe Dreamweaver and with graphic designs produced with other Adobe Creative Suite programs, are available here and here. Other pages can be provided upon request.
News Page Designs:
This page involved designing around two stories that both focused on the governor’s State of the State address but on different subjects that he talked about. Balancing the two stories in the package with the visuals, and with the rest of the stories on the page, was a fun but interesting challenge.
Before March 2009, the Sunday Missourian was a tabloid-sized paper, which made it much different than designing the regular daily news pages. this page was fun because the basketball team was doing so well this season and we were able to pull some particularly interesting facts to accentuate.
This inside news page presented a challenge because there were no visuals assigned to the page. The dominant story was to be the activity pyramid, and I had to somehow tell the story visually. I had to muster up some very under-developed Adobe Illustrator skills to make the graphic you see here.
This page came to the desk between semesters at the Missourian, when there weren’t any design students working. Normally for centerpieces like this tax reform story, designers have two or three days to design but because of the timing, I only had a few hours. I liked how it turned out though.
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Sports Page Designs:
Sports at the Missourian was a totally different animal from the news desk. It was much more laid back and hands-on. It was also a great exercise in journalism as I was able to both design this page and news edit the stories, working out headlines and other elements on my own.
These two sports pages were from early in the summer, but over the course of my time as a TA in sports, I came to like it more and more. The softball page had a lot of information that needed to be packaged. I tried to pull out information on the baseball page to highlight in order to make the page more interesting.
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Feature Spread Design:
My first-ever design shift at the Missourian was on Inauguration Day 2009, and a double-truck photo spread came with it. I had help on this page from TA Victoria Millner.
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Non-newspaper Design:
In 2007, I completely rewrote and redesigned the new member program and handbook for the MU chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha. This is the first chapter, but I can provide others. The main challenge was maintaining a consistent design over 50+ pages.
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