One Page Newspaper
As my final year class room project, I decided to take up the Newspaper design. A newspaper essentially poses a very complex system design and information design challenge. As for my insights which claimed:
Newspapers and other printed modes of communication They are in terms of time, money and energy. There is too much of distraction from all sorts of information being targeted for his attention.To get the real news/information, he needs to pass through many layers to get it. The complete of essential and selective reading, as the reader doesnt have the complete time to read the entire news, though he wished he had been able to read everything.
Newspapers and other printed modes of communication They are in terms of time, money and energy. There is too much of distraction from all sorts of information being targeted for his attention.To get the real news/information, he needs to pass through many layers to get it. The complete of essential and selective reading, as the reader doesnt have the complete time to read the entire news, though he wished he had been able to read everything.
I tried to see how much news can be accommodated into one page. I tried only the headlines. Kept the size of the newspaper same.
This made me realize, that this is probably not the best solution. Too much text is intimidating. The news hierarchy is not clear at all. Only 35 news items were included, which excluded most of the economics and the complete sports
Trying to figure out, how the gutter spaces work in this case.
Here I was trying to figure out the different genres of the news.
We also have regulars like Market Indices/ temperature/ Currency/ Crude oil/ daily cartoon. All of this comes on the front side. The back is left for classifieds and the ads. A small space is also provided for the ads on the front page, depends on the number of news items.
This is where I am able to achieve all the 53 news items which are the total items, excluding the editorial. The second side is left for the classifieds and ads.
The top half contains the major news for the day from all the sections. It accompanies the first para of the complete article and is sufficient to have the complete summary of the news. The bolder the news the more important it is. The color of the captions on top tell which section the news belongs to.
The lower half has got the remaining news items set nicely in comfortable columns.
The legend on top helps the reader to navigate and relate various news items just by seeing the colors of the captions.
The name explains the purpose and the function of the newspaper.
The mast head.
The lower half in detail.
The daily cartoon, weather and the world economy at a glance.
Test print of the newspaper.
