This week, I designed the the department pages for books and back of the books. I would post a .pdf, but I forgot to personally save them for my portfolio. I'll update this post later when I get it.
Anyways, I noticed a weakness of mine when I do the department pages. Since I'm in News Design this semester for the Missourian, my designing becomes very standard. There is a template for what seems like everything from type to infoboxes. With magazine design for Vox, I've noticed the same issue.
I'm scared to stray away from the templates. I want to be more creative within the department pages, but I'm struggling to figure out how. This is great that I figured this out now, because this is what I plan to do with the rest of my life: design... which means designing department pages.
Something Theresa said stuck with me. It's that bit that she said about how employers are looking for designers who can design within the templates, but do it in a creative way.
Well, I guess I still have another half a semester to work on it!
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