Much of my work involves tweaking and enhancing page layouts submitted by editors. Sometimes I lay pages from scratch. Here are some of my favorites:
This taught me the redemptive power of colorblocking on a text-heavy page.
Text wrap is not always your friend. Sometimes splitting up graphics helps, though!
I love laying full pages - playing with amounts of white space and color in the headline.
Recreating the "For Dummies" cover on entirely on InDesign is one of the hardest things I've ever done.
Sometimes, leadership means picking up others' slack. To meet deadline once, I needed to lay the entirety of our centerfold spread — a responsibility generally belonging to the centerfold editors. Here's what I came up with..