Planning the may issue
Edward Bauer
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Hey all designers I have gone over the word count and I think this will roughly fit in the paper for the 12 pages. I have taken the standard News, Comment, Culture & Sport model for the order. What do people think of the arrangement?
Kellys says she would like to work on the poster cover I am going to work on the rest of the pages. I don't know what Sean you are able or want to be doing? I will call you.
For how we should do this - I am away this Sat & Sunday. So I think I should go to try and have the first draft done by Friday. I will post it up for thoughts and edits and then when I come back I will make the final version monday. However if Sean or someone else is are around this weekend you can take over working on it this weekend.
If we have serious disagreements over the weekend we will have an emergency Design working group meeting Monday 6pm at which we will finalise it . To send in Tuesday.
Edd
Page 1 A really cool Poster Cover
Page 2 Local Elections coverage
Page 3 Advert Full page
Page 4 don't vote & Underfunded safeguarding services leaves unidentified children at risk
page 5 Crisis payments underspent in Birmingham & Undemocratic minster for the midllands
page 6 Advert full page
page 7 ATOS & Green Homes
page 8 Trojan horse or silencing of dissent, what next? & Editoral (Dorter)
page 9 UKIP & Calling all women
Page 10 Shout Film Fest & John Lennon & ¼ page CATC advert
page 11 half page Coop advert & three penny opera
Page 12 F1: the Season so far
Lindsey
Thu 1 May 2014 6:11PM
This is a good design, and with the refinements mentioned it will make a really strong cover.
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Fri 2 May 2014 11:56AM
I like the cover but think the disembodied heads of IDS and Osborne should be removed. I think it distracts attention from an attack on the capitalist state's policies to attacking two Tories, it's politically better without personalising it.
Sean Farmelo Thu 1 May 2014 3:16PM
Yeah I don't think kelly's is bad at all - the only niggle I have is there isn't enough info about the sort of moral side of benefits - many people need to have it spelled out to them why benefit sanctions are actually bad (and our newspaper will probs be going to lots of those people) and secondly I think the design and stuff is good but the satchi and satchi image is very widely used. If we could think of an alternative back image or maybe redo it with brum landmarks or something it might be more unique
Lindsey Thu 1 May 2014 3:26PM
Is Sean's idea possible, to put some Brum landmarks in the image?
Where would the accompanying figures appear? I don't see it on the list of content. Maybe page 2, or even as a window on the image?
Sean Farmelo Thu 1 May 2014 3:58PM
just a bit more text down the bottom I reckon
Edward Bauer Thu 1 May 2014 3:59PM
Sean has just said he doesn't have the time to do a redesigned cover. I m very concerned we might not have time to make a second cover. I am currently working with Kelly on the rest of the paper. Depending on how quickly we get this done will decide I think if we can make this total re-design of the front page. I think it is clear that people are against Kellys as it stands however we may have to revisit this depending on how other work progresses.
Sean Farmelo Thu 1 May 2014 4:02PM
can we be added to the dropbox pls! - yeah I think it's good but could do with some working on basically :D
Kelly Rogers Thu 1 May 2014 4:02PM
I'm going to put more text in the bottom left. I realised that I was using far too big a font size, and I reckon a lot more detail can be put in there.
I think we have an issue of time. Edd and I are going to a festival tomorrow and so won't be able to do anymore designing after tonight - so we're currently trying to get the entire 12 pages drafted.
I can't really spend hours working on this cover, after I spent a long time on it yesterday. I think replacing it with something else would mean spending a very long time designing something else. We don't have headline articles that are good enough for a front page, and so it's going to have to be another image I think.
Kelly Rogers Thu 1 May 2014 4:02PM
I can try putting in some landmarks yes.
Lindsey · Thu 1 May 2014 3:12PM
OK sure.
Who's been assigned to write the article?