NYC High School Newspaper
August 3rd, 2008 posted by Matt Aubie in Design
Awesome newspaper design for a NYC high school. I’ve always wondered why newspapers produced by journalism classes aren’t more conceptual and risk-taking than professional newspapers. If you’re going to try something, might as well do it in school when multiple salaries aren’t on the line.
The same reason as professional newspapers… too much “supervision” from supervisors/teachers.
I was an editor for my paper way back and once had a student design an amazing cover. He was a volunteer and spent more than 20 hours on it.
Our supervisor came at the last minute, looked at the cover and proceeded to butcher the entire design. She kept telling the designer, cut this and that, add this or that and the cover ended up being worse than the initial design.
I wish I stood up for him but alas didn’t have the guts back then.
One thing I learned though is to never ever compromise. If you do, you end up with something you wish never went to print.
I agree Nicole. Though I am finding it hard to do that now - I have a summer job working as a designer, and am often, for lack of a better word, “bullied” around by the people at the top. It is hard to sell your ideas, especially being a student. But Massimo Vignelli did once say (I’m paraphrasing here) it doesn’t matter how stupid you or your clients are - once it’s printed, excuses don’t matter.
Do you have a copy of the cover you’re talking about?