If you’re hoping to sell yourself in the areas of graphic design or photojournalism, this idea might really speak to you. I’m betting that if you think far enough out the box, you could even make it work for conventional converged journalism.

I can’t say enough great things about this magazine and the supplemental videos and books they produce.

I wanted to share these three business cards, created by Kaitlyn Chornoby (obviously).

She broke several of the rules (use of color, images and logos), but she did it so well I didn’t mind!

We’ll talk about these in class Monday after we discuss the principles of design.

Note how well Kaitlyn did at grouping her elements and building in proximity and hierarchy.

More to come.

Magazine spreads due Wednesday, April 7 at the beginning of class.

Assignment: Find an e-portfolio for your inspiration piece. Show us the example in class on Wednesday.

Bring your cover letters and resumes (in print) to class Wednesday.

Work on magazine spreads.

Due Wednesday, April 7 at the beginning of class.

Magazine assignment.

Magazine critique (group). Prepare a five minute presentation about your magazine for Wednesday’s class. Address the following:

• Styles (paragraph and character)
• Color
• Use of white space
• Photo use
• Size of media
• Layout
• Principle of design (are they followed)?
• Circulation
• Online presence
• Ownership
• Is readership growing?

BEFORE MONDAY, please spend a generous amount of time watching and reviewing these tutorials;

Introducing photoshop

Resizing images.

Cropping an image

Photo spread practice layout

Story module due, I’ll be checking your stylesheets.

For Thursday, complete the practice layout. Use an 11×17″ document with a five-column grid.

Review Harrower on photo spreads.

Also visit and examine these sites:

Magazine photo spreads

NewsDesigner photo pages (you’ll have to open the individual pages from various newspapers)