Flex: Student Newspaper Issue 13/

Now that i had some previous experience working on the paper I knew that we could do better this time. After having a meeting with the editors we proposed that there was much are feedback between the designers of and editors of each section

The team for this issue was Me, Morwenna, Rachel, Nadya, Lou, Henry and Guro For this issue below I had to put together Sports and heavily alter another section as well put in a lod of last minute adverts and prepare the paper for the printer. The cover was designed by Guro.

This issue the paper was much better. There were only issues with names of certain sections of the articles. To counter this I have made myself a strict checklist to run through before sending the paper off to print. One of the strength of this issue was in the process; the idea of having more feedback between the editors and design team made the work much smoother and meant I had to do much less tweaking in the end. I hope next issue there will be zero mistakes as it will be the final issue before the christmas break.

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Flex: Student Newspaper

Before I had even arrived at University College Falmouth I knew I wanted to get involved with the student newspaper. I signed up at the freshers fair and before I knew it I was the only designer. The previous designer Ben Satchell, now in his third year studying graphic design, has had to hand over the existing designs as his course takes priority.

The new design team currently consist of Omari, Morwenna, Rachel, Nadya, Lou, Henry and Guro. We have one designer per section although there are 7 design and 6 sections. This way someone can cover if a designer decided to drop out. For this issue below I had to put together Arts, Sports, heavily alter the lifestyle section as well as prepare the paper for the printer because such an issue occurred. The cover was designed by Rachel and Nadya.

When the paper was finsished it was not perfect. There were mistakes that would only be noticed by those who worked on the paper, and the editor was not pleased. As I was design manager a lot of the responsibility fell onto me as I am the last person to see the paper before it goes to print. We evaluated the process and had a meeting with the editors to dicuss what went wrong. Next issue we will definiely be stornger. Considering we are all first years I think we did a very good job.

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