BRIDGE 3 NEWSPRINT: THE JACKSON JOURNAL

Newspapers are a huge part of our lives whether we pay attention to them regularly or not. This project opened our eyes because we had to pay attention to the subtle details that printers and editors of newspapers display everyday for people around their neighborhood. It gives a new kind of appreciation for that hard work, and heightens our understanding on design and how it’s used in our day-to-day lives.

When creating the Jackson Journal, our group wanted to involve the culture and community feeling we had of Jackson Heights on the pages. The community is so diverse, there were many stores that we walked into where the first language people spoke to you was spanish. There aren’t many places in Manhattan that has the close knit “melting pot” feel and we wanted to honor Jackson Heights with our newspaper. We started by creating different possible layouts, a logo, and trying to pick a font for our title. We spent a long time picking a font because we wanted to make sure it represented the melting pot community we wrote about. We then created these layouts on Indesign and with help from the class, compared them to each other.

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