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When I speak up…

and I am there, I get yelled at for causing a disruption and told I can’t “speak” unless I am not
when I am not, I get told I am complaining and that I should only “talk” when I am there.

So much for transparency

Hm. So, today’s paper (I’m just looking online) is actually not nearly as hideous as yesterday’s. I am only looking at the front page, so it’s just front page stuff today.

1) The teaser, finally something comes of it. Move the fu*king page numbers up away from the line, push them down a font size and for the LOVE of god stop capitalizing EVERYTHING. But other than that, they look pretty good.

The photo provides a nice feel to the page. Without it, it would be pretty shitty. I would have shot from another angle, but that’s a personal thing. It looks good to me.

There are no headlinees that stick out to me today. It seems like there are two big stories here that could have used larger treatment. The lead story and the NPR story are both interesting to the reader and I’m left just kinda wandering around the page. Sad.

The blue in the Wet And Wild box is a bit much. The photo itself stands alone, why clutter it up?

Other than the things mentioned and a few things I left out ’cause they are tiny, today’s front page design is not too bad. I’m still disgusted at the teasers, but they are getting better than the first several concepts.

- antagonist

The Antagonist

In an attempt to use my knowledge as constructive criticism, I am just going to review today’s Arizona Daily Wildcat

design
The first thing I see today is the gross teaser. There is nothing there to draw my eye. I can’t even read the life from Wild life (a signature of Wildlife) because of the black teaser. If you are going to do a teaser this dark, why not modify the Wildlife icon slightly. Give it a white stroke, or hell, change the colors. Or, if you are really daring, cut the teaser a little short so the Wildlife logo will stick out. Also, I am not fond of the font on the teaser. Try something more simple, I think the complexity of the font really makes it difficult to actually read the content.

Also, the Arizona Daily Wildcat header bleeds over on top of it. It looks like a mistake, might not be though.

3 Things
The color behind 3 things looks good today. I’m also glad that you put quotes around “Blood Diamond,” that’s easy to forget.

Okay, I’ll be the first to say it if no one else has, the pull-quotes we have used for our “style” this semester are gross. It looks like a font you’d use in a newsletter and or at the gymboree. So have the pink ones, those are even worse.

Wild-life
Cool looking color. What ever happened to the ‘cat using full-color on _Wild_life?
I won’t go further into detail than that for now

Sports
Please, lose the consistent cutouts, If you are going to have more than one photo, at least make the cutout smaller, or… choose on that is in focus.

Fun feature with Taryne.

Lose the red in sports

Photo
The front photo is way too dark to be a draw. And you were taking a photo of a fair, right? All I see is some dude at a control panel. I had to read the subhead to understand what was going on. This is the front page, remember that’s real estate that could be going to an ad, and an expensive one at that. Get a ride, someone trying to operate it. Something with color, the sky people smiling, someone setting up a booth. This says to me nerd at a control panel that’s really dark.

That’s not even close to the story at all, unless I’m reading the wrong story. On the front page!?!?

Did I mention he has red/brown skin?

That’s all I have time for now, I’ll try to read more in the paper when get more time.

Ideas are there. Use ‘em or lose em