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.