All the news that's fit to .... design

Last week, as I blogged about, I starting designing the Carroll County Times front page. I was pretty stoked for it, because what newspaper/journalism lover would not want to put together the front page of a newspaper?

I decided I wouldn't get too crazy or creative for the first few weeks so I wouldn't get behind deadline and would have time to learn how to put it all together. But last night I was given a slight challenge. There was a story on a court hearing with direct links to Westminster, and a sidebar (extra story) to go with it. I couldn't recall any A1s that I had seen of the CCTs in the past that had two stories on one topic -- at least that both needed to go on the front page.

But I'm pretty happy with what I came up with and how it turned out. I even got compliments from two of the reporters, so that made me feel pretty good about it. I really love designing the front pages. I'm better when the design is more formulaic but can still be tweaked. It's harder for me to get creative when there's a blank palette. That's the problem I think I'm having with the Synergy section, but that's another story.

I'm excited to do a lot more A1s and try different designs and extra elements (like cut outs).

I don't know how to get my pages to show up on here, because it won't upload PDFs.

But you can see my most recent A1 (and most of my other pages) here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/38915425/10-07-2010-A1-Snyder-v-Phelps