Moist Design: Newspaper Club: Jo's One Day Brief

Yesterday we were given a 1 day project by Jo. We were split into four groups and instructed to design a 12 page newspaper called 'Success by Design'. Each group were given 3 pages each to design and we had to delegate positions and jobs roles. Our group had page 1,2 and 3 to design which was tricky as we had to keep running round all the groups to see what they were putting on their pages so we could make the front page relevant but also to ensure that no topics were repeated or too similar.

Jo suggested using a flat plan to work out and plan our ideas and content. It sounds silly but it is such a useful and easy tool but really obvious as well! Why did I not think of this before!

I was given the role of Editor and so my role was to plan the content on our pages, write any features, commission photographers and check over all the writing for typos and hyphenated text. We learnt how to demonstrate and practice how to delegate, time manage, plan and work as a team and individually. It really helped me with my individual project as it made me start thinking bout my newspaper and how i am going to arrange and edit the content for it to be successful.

The content was made up of the questions and themes we are using in our current brief what does a designer need to know and be able to do to be successful in the 21st century? And because we were all looking at different topics we felt that the cover needed to be simple and bold so it didn't just represent one category but we created a line to follow that runs the whole way through the newspaper to tie in the front and back cover and all the topics in the paper.