Critique 4- Feb. 14

Below is my feature pages for Vox this week. I am pretty proud of my work over the past week on this. There was a lot of decisions I made, some with help rom Debbie and Liz, but most of the final concept was mine and there were no major changes that were made. I was very happy about this. My original edit was from five pictures and I talked about this in lab last week. I was unsure about how the photos would work together, but I am happy with my solution. I actually got Kristin to give me another picture to work with, and it turned out to be the dominant on the opening spread. They were going to use this one for the Table of Contents! I wasn't going to stand for that and stole it.
I like how her head is cut off, and I thought this helped illustrate how this girl is finding her true self, as she has a diverse background. So I thought it worked as a mystery theme. So I made sure to have her face in the second spread. I wasn't going to initially have the secondary image above the headline, but after the text was actually finalized it worked as a great scene setter since it is the opening scene in the lead of the text. As for the headline being untraditionally placed underneath the story and deck: this is me going outside the box and pushing convention. It is actually content driven because after reading the story I wanted to create a layout that was unconventional to match the story about an unconventional girl. She is unique in her heritage and so I thought it was fitting to have a unique opening.
I did come across some noteworthy technological problems. I began work in the second floor lab and then moved into the Vox room. I found the perfect font I wanted in Medici Script. It was on the shorttalk computer when I designed it and turned it in Saturday night. When I came in Sunday things were cool, but on Monday they opened my work on a different computer and the font was missing. So they wanted to me to find a new font for the whole spread. This was no fun. But Liz amazingly enough found a way to upload the font and so I got to change it back. The spreads on this blog have the ones I changed it to, not the Medici which will hopefully be in print on Thursday, so check it out. And make sure you check different computers when you do your design so you don't have this panick attack that I did.