Newspaper Design

IFRA hands-on training for newspaper publishers

17 to 18 November 2008
Hyderabad, India
Language(s): English

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The training will help participants to learn how to innovate on deadline using scalable design strategies, how to use editor-driven and magazine techniques to provide an engaging reader experience. The focus of the training is on techniques for designing new publications or redesigning existing products or sections.

Training consists of lectures, discussions, case studies, critiques and small-groups exercises. Delegates will be required to bring examples of story projects that they think were designed well and, more importantly, examples of those that were not.

Details of the topics
"Innovating on deadline" - Case study of how the Chicago Sun-Times' new editing and design strategies produce compelling front pages and news packages.

"Discovering your inner tabloid" - Discuss editing techniques of modern tabloids that engage modern readers. Overview of three tabloid newspapers with very different audiences and approaches.

"Maestro design lab" - Participants will break into small groups and be introduced to the maestro tool and the rapid-prototyping exercise to produce a defined result. A new design for a paper or a section.

Case study in rapid prototyping - Red Streak: Chicago youth commuter paper designed and launched in 23 days.

Programme
Day – 1
> Discovering your Inner Tabloid
> Elements and Principles of Design
> Case Study: Innovating on Deadline
> Maestro planning and small groups exercise - two page spread
Day - 2
> Case Study: Free commuter paper in Chicago
> Case Study: Redesign of San Jose Mercury News business section
> Small group exercise and redesigns using Maestro discussion to evaluate dynamics of visual planning, deadline news editing for photos, graphics and design
> What makes a strong cover?
> Maestro planning and small groups exercise - Cover

Who should attend?
Publishers, Editors, Designers, Sub-Editors, News Editors, Journalists, Photo Editors, Strategic Editors, Design Editors, Picture Editors and Copy Editors.

Trainer
Robb Montgomery began his career as an editorial artist at the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel in 1990 after graduating from Eastern Illinois University with a degree in Journalism. He held an editing position at the Chicago Sun-Times, redesigned The Examiner, based in San Francisco, and helped launch the Baltimore, Maryland edition. Robb redesigned the business section for The San Jose Mercury News and was recognized by the Society for News Design for his work as art director for alternative news and entertainment weekly tabloid ‘XS Magazine’. As art director for KidNewssection at the Chicago Tribune, Robb earned several awards from the SND competition including two bronze medals.

Robb has traveled extensively to Scandinavia, Asia, the Middle East, Canada and Eastern Europe since delivering a keynote speech on tabloid design at the World Editors Forum and World Newspaper Congress in Seoul, Korea in June 2005. Presently, Robb is the CEO of Visual Editors.com

For more information or to register
Email infoindia@ifra.com or Phone +91.44.4211-2893

Fees / Prix / Preise

General
INR 30,000 / EUR 575

For members:
INR 25,000 / EUR 475

For non-members:
INR 30,000 / EUR 575

12.36% Service Tax extra
Overseas participants have to pay in EUR