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Design Impact: Headline puns

By Matt Torman

Talking about headlines playing on words, specifically in relation to the 2013 U.S. Open champ Justin Rose.

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Design Spotlight: The Repository

By Joe Greco

Sometimes no extra white space is a good thing.

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Design Spotlight: Double your fun with double trucks

By Adam McHugh

Like posters, double truck opportunities don't come along very often, so when you get one, make it count!

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Design Spotlight: Springfield (Ill.) Journal-Register sports cover

By Matt Torman

A look at the June 9, 2013, sports cover for the Springfield (State) Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill.

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Design spotlight: Good visuals on inside pages

By Bruce Heisel

Well-designed entertainment pages with multiple moving parts that, when properly arranged, make for a quick, easy read.

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Design Spotlight: 6/2/13 MetroWest Arts cover

By Matt Torman

A look at the June 2, 2013, MetroWest Arts cover.

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Design spotlight: Looking ahead

By Joe Greco

The 4-letter word that makes some editors squirm in their seats: PLAN

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Design spotlight: Make an opinion page pop

By Bruce Heisel

Opinion pages, despite the often-lively content, are notoriously gray and often just unattractive.

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Poster-ized: Give fans another reason to buy the paper

By Adam McHugh

Poster pages are a great way for papers to get readers and advertisers interested in local sports teams while enhancing their playoff coverage.

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Design Spotlight: The Times-Reporter

By Joe Greco

Documents often can be compelling, smokig-gun visuals that can tell the story better than a photo. Here's what The Times-Reporter displayed its localized story of the IRS-targeting scandal that broke recently.

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Design Impact: Ode to the tab chart

By Matt Torman

Organize your information with a simple tab chart.

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Design Spotlight: Event calendars with impact

By Bruce Heisel

Let’s face it, calendars can be labor-intensive. Yet community calendars remain intensely local features that invite readers to regularly use the paper. For that reason alone, they’re not going away anytime soon. Nor should they.

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Design Spotlight: Get carefully colorful with your layouts

By Adam McHugh

Don't be afraid to splash some color on your pages — but remember that less is more.

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Design Impact: Break it out

By Matt Torman

Using breakout boxes as a way to layer information and break up text, not just take up space.

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Design Spotlight: Giving you the Business

By Adam McHugh

Don't be afraid to give your Business pages a little design love — and attention.

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Design Spotlight: MetroWest Daily News Arts

By Matt Torman

04.21.13 | MetroWest Daily News

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Design Spotlight: Canton's 72-page special section

By Joe Greco

Yes, you read that correctly. A 72-page special section. Broadsheet. We spoke with Scott Brown, managing editor of The Repository, about the project and how it came together.

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Design Impact: Use 1-column photos with care

By Doug Gass

Designers looking for an easy way to avoid too much gray space on a page or in a story package often will opt for a 1-column photo as a solution.

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Design Spotlight: Photo Packages

By Bruce Heisel

How to design page full of pictures
 

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Design Spotlight: The power of quote-driven headlines

By Adam McHugh

Don't be afraid to use a quote for a headline — sometimes it's more powerful than anything even the best headline writer could come up with.

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About this blog

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When it comes to newspaper design, our Corporate Design Director Joe Greco knows the score. He brings his award-winning eye to pages produced by GateHouse newspapers both inside our Design Houses and out. Also contributing to this blog on regular basis are:

• Doug Gass — Content/delivery manager

• Bruce Heisel — Central desk dayside manager

• Adam McHugh — Metro Design House manager/common content editor

• Matt Torman — Central desk nightside manager



GHnewsroom: Design

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Design Impact: Headline puns

Posted Jun 17, 2013 @ 09:25 PM

Design Spotlight: The Repository

Posted Jun 07, 2013 @ 09:26 AM

Design spotlight: Good visuals on inside pages

Posted Jun 04, 2013 @ 09:17 AM

Design Spotlight: 6/2/13 MetroWest Arts cover

Posted Jun 03, 2013 @ 01:38 PM

Design spotlight: Looking ahead

Posted May 30, 2013 @ 07:41 PM

Design spotlight: Make an opinion page pop

Posted May 20, 2013 @ 07:23 PM

Design Spotlight: The Times-Reporter

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