Arts and Entertainment Page Design

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Ferris State Torch's A&E Front page

Fer­ris State Torch’s A&E Front page

Typ­i­cally a sec­tion that has dif­fi­culty with con­tent and design has seen recent improve­ment at the Fer­ris State Torch.
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About Kelsey Schnell, Creative Developer

Kelsey is the Creative Developer of College Newsroom and former Editor in Chief of the Ferris State Torch at Ferris State University. Currently he works at a marketing and PR firm in metro-Detroit. He is not good at picking up subtle hints or heavy objects. Visit Kelsey's personal site, www.kelseyschnell.com
 
 

3 Responses

  1. fox says:
    November 9, 2009 at 7:58 am

    I like the over­all page quite a bit. The cut-outs work for me and the red dot is sort of like a spot­light — appro­pri­ate for a concert.

    I don’t like the font thing so much. I’d also pre­fer the cut­line to be down at the bot­tom of the page instead of float­ing out of the guys ear. Also, a sub­head on some­thing as vague as this would be my preference.

  2. clairea says:
    November 9, 2009 at 6:02 pm

    I think the place­ment of the body text is what is work­ing best on the page. Using the red dot to high­light the pull quote is an excel­lent idea.

    I think it would be bet­ter suited if there were one piece of dom­i­nant art, it’s kind of lack­ing that. Right now, you don’t know what is more impor­tant to look at, espe­cially with all the over­lap­ping you have going on and the photo cutouts are sim­i­lar in size. You kind of have to make it really obvi­ous what you want peo­ple to look at. It’s not that you can’t have every­thing you have now, I just don’t think its func­tion­ing as well as it could.

    The head­line and the sub­head are too far apart. They feel kind of just like they are sit­ting there or float­ing almost. The place­ment of the two also makes it hard to know if they are sup­posed to go together as one head­line or sep­a­rate as a head­line and a subhead…if that makes sense. If we all didn’t know what the song was, it would be way more con­fus­ing. The sizes need to be more var­ied if they are sup­posed to be a head­line and a sub­head, or the text needs to be more sim­i­lar if you want them to be more of a head­line type treat­ment. I think you could have just stuck with “Semi-Charmed” and got­ten the desired effect.

    And what hap­pened to the top of Stephan Jenk­ins gui­tar? I could be mistaken…but it looks very bizarre get­ting left out of the cutout.

    Sorry to nit­pick Kelsey, but after four years of design school, I guess I notice stuff.

  3. fox says:
    November 10, 2009 at 9:16 am

    I would def­i­nitely agree with pick­ing a dom­i­nant ele­ment and mak­ing it obvi­ous here. Don’t worry about mak­ing one smaller — you don’t care about egos, etc,… Just pick the best artis­tic ele­ment and go BIG!

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