Flex Student Newspaper #27

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Flex Student Newspaper #23

#23 Cover

Rugby World Cup double page spread

London Fashion Week double page spread

Lifestyle section

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Flex 2011 Redesign Complete

You can see the full design process 'here'

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Flex Re-Design: Freshers Guide

On of the articles in the Freshers Guide is called '10 Things To Do Before SecondYear' by Hollie Anderson. I asked if I could see the articles before it was proofed so I could get an idea of what I have to work with. I will also be doing with for the other sections too.


After reading the article I felt that it would lend itself well to a poster quality approach. As you scroll down you will be able to see how the design has developed. I plan to experiment with illustration for maybe 5 of the 10 'things' and upload this later. But i personally feel that the last one, the most simple is the best and will continue to develop this.

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Flex Re-Design: Lifestyle Section

Today I decided to take a shot at the lifestyle section. Photography will play a large part in this section and is ideally at the forefront of the writer and editors mine. The only catch is that Flex has had consistently poor not to mention low resolution images. I want to take much more of a magazine approach to lifestyle as I feel it would lend itself well. Text-over-image is something I have been discussing with Henry but I will also need to run it by the printer. I would like to get the editors confident enough in letting us run full page, full bleed high resolution photos. Below is what I have in mind for lifestyle.

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Flex: Student Newspaper Issue 19

This term the design team says farewell to Rachel Maria Smith our regular Lifestyle section designer who is leaving the paper since being with us from the start of 1st year. She has done a great job and being a Designer for one of the UK's few student newspaper will look very impressive to employers on her CV. We are still looking for a new designer to take up the mantle. If you know anyone then tell them to get in touch with directly.

Despite our loss I feel this is the first issue of Flex that has been published after easter. I feel it is one of our best covers yet, something which we all need to put more time in. As you know I am Head of Design for the paper a role which involves working closely with the editors to achieve a quality and timely publication, managing a design team of of now 5; Mo, Nadya, Guro, Henry, Lou, designing a providing feedback on various designs, ensuring consistency across the publication, pre-press and enduring the printer gets the files on time.

There are only three issues for this final term so they should not conflict too much with course work and if they do it usually means I am up until about 3am on a Thursday night/ Friday morning with the printer screaming at me. (No, I kid. he does not scream he always seems very calm, I am the one who gets stressed.)

Next year there will be a new team of editors who are currently shadowing the 2nd year editors. I plan to arrange a meeting with them an improve the relationship between writers/ editors and the design team. Its will only the make the paper stronger. I have also had a few ideas about launching an online magazine to run a long side the paper. But i'll save that for another post.

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Character Design on the way...

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Flex: Student Newspaper Issue 15

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Safety Focus Magazine Re-design/

I saw an advertisement in a student newsletter about working on magazine for Africa. Although this was a little vague I had plans in the future of etting up my own magazine so getting some experience would be useful. Although I had already begin working on Flex the student newspaper it would just be case of careful time managent to get it done. However this was only my first term and I was involved in too many things to give the magazine the attention it required.

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University College Falmouth: First Term/

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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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Falmouth University

I have been in Falmouth attending university for a week. There are some good things and some bad things but you deal with it. Thats life. I love Falmouth itself. The people are friendly (despite some of the looks I receive of old men) and the weather is nice. I have been surfing for the very first time (pictures will be up here soon). The course and the tutors are nice.

Although I am shearing accommodation (not only because Falmouth have taken on more students that they can provide accommodation fo but also because the government has given additional places for student within the creative industries because of our importance to the economy) the people I am with are great. I could not ask for better flatmates.

I may also have the opportunity to write for the Falmouth University newspaper 'Flex'. I may be able to get involved in not only the design side but the writing side also. More on this as i get it. In the meantime here are some pics of Gylly Beach in Falmouth.

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