The Sunday morning of the Orlando shooting I was heart broken. I was awake early and I have the bad habit of checking twitter before going to bed and I saw the tweets streaming in of a shooting and hostages in a bathroom. I felt helpless.
How can I help? What can I do? I thought...
Love is love, I repeated to myself.
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Old school news judgement went into play by using big art of the news and last speaker, Bill. A conversation needed to happen between the editors, designer, designer boss, copy editor and editor-and-chief: “Hillary isn’t there, our deadline can’t be pushed any longer, how can we display this historic night without…

If you look at other newspapers that got creative, there was no need to worry about deadline like the News York times. It was old school news judgement that clouded many newspaper front pages today. A longer deadline was needed. A conversation with the photo editor and news editor was needed.

Yup! Been there. So many times!

I am a newspaper designer. I have worked under crazy deadlines on the east coast. So I know the thinking behind using the photo of the news as the main slash/centerpiece to hold that page, i.e. Bernie and Bill Clinton. I’ve also been the designer not happy with the photo given to me by the photo editor because it…

There’s actually one black person in the back. There are a couple of Asians and a few Latino looking peeps. I would like for this kind of posts to stop unless you have the demographics to back it up. I am a light-skin Latina but a very proud one of Nicaraguan and Guatemalan descent. If I was in that photo, I would be…