Design
Below are some designs samples along with reflections
Reflection
My "Lighting the way" spread design uses a dark blue ocean, light blue sky, and an abandoned version of California's famous Pigeon Point Lighthouse to frame the text, allowing for easy reading.
The "After the recall" spread used a sidebar to elegantly incorporate a Q&A with San Francisco Chronicle journalist Alexei Kosseff (who broke the French Laundry scandal surrounding Gavin Newsom). To tie the pages together, the drawing of Newsom faces away towards the main story text.
My "Experiencing Roe Reversal" story utilizes a dark red, green, blue and white color scheme that matches the primary art of the the spread. The art depicts a young woman in the midst of the college application process, crossing out various colleges in the American South where the right to an abortion is in danger. This spread utilizes infographics, my first story to prominently feature infographics in the design. These infographics enhance the story by illustrating the colleges and college students affected by the overturn of Roe vs. Wade.
Reflection
As an editorials editor, I designed a spread incorporating multiple stories for the first time this semester. Despite the spread's relatively small changes from early draft to final draft in terms of overall design, the final draft used carefully placed pull quotes and pika'd spacing, ensuring that the text exactly fit the dimensions of the spread without detracting from the text of each story. Given that each story evolved as the design evolved, this spread was a new challenge for me.