Synopses & Reviews
Covering every aspect of newspaper design from typography to photography, from redesign to the specifics of a design stylebook, this volume is an essential text for use in graphic journalism courses and an effective reference source for editors and publishers. The author coins the phrase Total Page Concept (TPC). By use of this term, he demonstrates the importance of placing graphic elements on a page so that they complement one another. On the TPC page, all elements mesh. Typography, photography and illustrative art are as important to each page as are thorough writing and careful editing. This scholarly text includes more than 200 examples from newspapers throughout the United States, 60 interviews and citations plus statistical tables that show how editors use various graphic elements in their publications.
Divided into six sections, Elements of Newspaper Design shows how graphics and text must complement one another on a TPC page. Sections are: Basics of the Total Page Concept; Principles of Design; Building Blocks of Typography; Design Creativity; Finishing Touches; Putting It All Together.
About the Author
STEVEN E. AMES, is the director of student publications and teaches journalism at Pepperdine University, Malibu, California.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgments
Basics of the Total Page Concept
Putting Newspaper Design into Perspective
The Newspapers' Public
Principles of Design
Designing News Space
Designing Inside Sections and Pages with Advertising
Designing Tabloid News Space
Building Blocks of Typography
Continuity Elements
Adding Headlines
Text Matter Elements
Design Creativity
Creative Design
Photographic Design
Illustrative Design
Finishing Touches
Reader Attention Elements
Color
Putting it all Together
Computer-initiated Text, Graphics and Page Design
Redesign
The TPC Design Stylebooks
Index