Article design crit & Types of Publication

The main points we took away from the crit of our article design was ways to tackle the issue with the white background. The other group felt that the white background was too clean and crisp and did not reflect Alvin Stardusts career. We thoroughly agreed with this but had been unsure how to tackle it - as stated in my previous blog post. The other group suggested how we could potentially use a grainy texture for the background and overlay our content on top. 

Another suggestion was to lighten the 'quote circle' as the black was too harsh on the rest of the design.

From the crit of the other groups work, I learnt that large areas of body copy need to be broken up with elements to make it more appealing to read. 

TYPES OF PUBLICATION 

Terms technically refer to the physical size of the publication. This is ultimately determined by the size of the printer. Terms are often confused to describe typical content.

BROADSHEETS

-Financial Times

-The Sunday Times

-The Daily Telegraph

Large format (75cm x 60cm approx) - can be difficult to read due to its size.

Associated with business, seriousness, politics, detail, stocks, academic tone, textually heavy.
Term used to refer to low quality, single sheet in broadsheet size. Typically folded in half and different in content- usually more illustrative.

BERLINA 

-Guardian
-Observer

Smaller than a broadsheet, larger than a tabloid. (31.5cm x 47cm approx)
Typical European format.

TABLOIDS

Smaller size (43cm x 30 cm approx)
Term comes from the word tablet. Tabloid was a smaller, easier to swallow tablet. Hence the compression of size and content of tabloid papers.

Size of tabloids usually taken up with larger titles/font size, adverts, less body text - unlike compact tabloids :


COMPACTS( SUB CATEGORY OF TABLOIDS)

The Times
Daily Mail
Independent

Same size as tabloids. Larger word count. Typical Broadsheet content (more academic), tabloid layout.