Flex Student Newspaper: #31 Freshers 2012

Freshers Mood Board Cover

Production has begun on the Flex Freshers issue for 2012/13. Above is the mood board for the cover and we are pulling in articles, building the mood board and designing as content comes in. I am currently trying to find illustrators for the issue as well as the cover. Myself and the Editor-In-Chief Dan Simpson know that this issues cover should set the standard for the rest of year and this is what we want to kick off with.

There have been a few changes over the summer. All of the design team I had in 1st and 2nd year and left so they can focus all their time on their 3rd year. That was also my plan, to pass it on to a new designer but I could not find anyone willing to take it on. I sort of understand it because being a design director is a lot of pressure. So far I have one other, soon to be 2nd yr, student designing a long side me and I am very grateful. I will have a lot to balance for my third and final year but I will have less on my plate than I did last year as I was freelancing as well as Treasuser for the African Caribbean Society at University College Falmouth.  In October is the fresher fair where we hope to recruit new people for all departments I will have to find some new designers. We also have a Facebook group but will try to rely more so on email and phone calls for communication as simply being Facebook can result in procrastination.


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Flex Student Newspaper #30

Flex #30 June 2012 is the final issue of the academic year and I am very pleased with it. Being the last issue of the year meant is was produced while people were trying to meet last minute coursework deadlines. I felt some departments looked quite strong and I will go into the summer holidays with a few ways we can improve our design. I will need to take some time to evaluate the year, production process and my team before making changes. Below are the pages I did the design & layout for in this final issue.

Flex #30 June 2012 Cover

Flex #30 June 2012 Editorial/ Contributors

Flex #30 June 2012 News Page 4-5. We have started to run the very short articles along the bottom. The black, blue and yellow bars serve as links to online and social media.

Flex #30 June 2012 News Page 4-5. We have started to get more vertical with some of the layouts as well as work things across the page and use the space more creatively.

Flex #30 June 2012 News Page 12-13. The centre page spread was one of the cover stories so we did something a little more special working closely with Sheri Matthews the Features editor. We decided to run the two articles along with a timeline of the queen at the bottom running the length of both pages to serve as a visual hook.

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