Saturday, April 25, 2009

The News

Front Pages of The News

Left to right: April 23, 2009; April 25, 2009

The News is a daily publication in Mexico City, Mexico. Compared to the other winners of SND.org's "World's Best-Designed," The News has a small circulation of 10,000. Although it is a small newspapers, the design overall is something you'd see at a larger publication. The tidy trim of the text and good choice in photos help tell the story instead of bogging the reader down with too many graphic elements. Also, the standing heads, or headers throughout the paper are denoted by different colors. The muted tones are a light touch to the paper that adds an appealing visual element.

April 25, 2009

In this section titled "Living," the colors of the headline, subhead and the liftout quote draw out the colors of the photo. Using color in this particular story is appropriate because it is a lighter story as it is part of the "Living" section and not part of the day's hard news headlines. The same holds true for in the "Science" section. The orange/tan hues of the headlines draw from the header while they all complement the color of the horses in the photos.




April 25, 2009

At first glance, this "Opinion & Comment" page looks incomplete because it uses such an unconventional lay-out. There is a large white space nearly in the middle of the page while two different stories are laid out on both sides. The column of white space divides the two articles. Since op-ed pieces usually don't have photos, or are many times accompanied by political cartoons, I enjoy this lay-out of all text. Instead of using photos, text is used as a graphic element. On this page, the pullout quote is used as the graphic, artistic element. Also, the ampersands in the header adds a clean visual element. I also like that color is not used in this layout. Colors evoke emotions. As an opinions page, using shades of black helps distinguish its content. For example, in both the "Living" and "Science" sections of this paper, color is used freely. The stories presented in this fashion are not hard-news stories. Although the voices in the stories of the "Opinions & Comments" page are not necessarily hard-news, they present a new perspective to the reader. This perspective should be presented in a manner that is straightforward and able to stand alone.


Although The News has a small circulation, you'd never guess that judging by their design and lay-outs. I wish my small town paper looked this good.

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