Jean - I see some different color palette experimentation, which is good.
But, I also see that you are mixing feature article content with department article content. I've separated these in the Word file on purpose. The Department text is full of small "chunked" sections, the feature text contains a large amount of run-on text. So... you should return to this exercise before going on, and experiment with the proper text because you will need to address the smaller sections in a different way than I see here. The articles that you are supposed to be using are: The Future of Farms; Future Frontiers; Underused and Overlooked. Using a section of these articles (yes, you can cut even these short articles to fit your layout) will make a really big difference to your layout solutions.
I do want to mention one thing I see is a problem in these layouts - trapped, awkward neg space around the headings. The shapes you are creating give us no information, nothing that corresponds to the content... yet our eyes sit in these areas... as we wonder what they are for? Please be more aware of the neg shapes on your pages. Don't surround big areas of white (or neg) space with other elements... creating a shape that holds nothing for the reader.
Also - please DO NOT UNDERLINE a headline. That is the solution that non-designers use because they don't have any other options. We have lots of options to style type - please use a combination of good typographic techniques for your headings.
Sorry.. .another thing - don't forget to include a department title (that you can write for this department) that would be used every month for this department.
Jean - I see some different color palette experimentation, which is good.
ReplyDeleteBut, I also see that you are mixing feature article content with department article content. I've separated these in the Word file on purpose. The Department text is full of small "chunked" sections, the feature text contains a large amount of run-on text. So... you should return to this exercise before going on, and experiment with the proper text because you will need to address the smaller sections in a different way than I see here. The articles that you are supposed to be using are: The Future of Farms; Future Frontiers; Underused and Overlooked. Using a section of these articles (yes, you can cut even these short articles to fit your layout) will make a really big difference to your layout solutions.
I do want to mention one thing I see is a problem in these layouts - trapped, awkward neg space around the headings. The shapes you are creating give us no information, nothing that corresponds to the content... yet our eyes sit in these areas... as we wonder what they are for? Please be more aware of the neg shapes on your pages. Don't surround big areas of white (or neg) space with other elements... creating a shape that holds nothing for the reader.
Also - please DO NOT UNDERLINE a headline. That is the solution that non-designers use because they don't have any other options. We have lots of options to style type - please use a combination of good typographic techniques for your headings.
Sorry.. .another thing - don't forget to include a department title (that you can write for this department) that would be used every month for this department.