Newsdesign

News design is the arrangement of images and text on a newspaper or magazine page, according to editorial and graphical guidelines and goals. While editorial depends the order of the articles of the importance of the appearance, legibility and balance of text and image elements, and the integration of ads play a role. The result is the so-called layout. Today, this process takes place within the editorial office at the computer (whole page break ), it was formerly part of the art ( breaks).

News design takes into account the principles of graphic design and is a visiting specialist as part of journalism education in the United States.

The era of modern newspapers begins in the middle of the 19th century with the industrial revolution and the growing capacity for newspaper printing and distribution. Since then, improvements in printing technology, graphic design and editorial standards in a number of improvements in the appearance and readability of the newspapers have done. The newspapers of the 19th century were very closely printed, often vertically arranged with a variety of headings for each article. Only the digital printing pack and the whole page break in the 20th century have changed the look of newspapers critical.

Some changes:

• Less items per page
• Fewer but bigger headlines
• More pixels usually take pictures, but also often boxes or graphics
• More white space (empty space ), also referred to as " air." A page with too little white space is called " tight" and with too much white space " loose".
• Color

Process

Layout normally use desktop publishing software to arrange the elements on the page directly. In the past, before digital prepress, used designer " layout dummies" to align the exact layout and elements for each page. A complete layout Dummie was used for the determination of the exact pressure column width in which a typesetter set the font and text columns.

With the photographic printing process has gone over to the adhesive layout, with print columns was stuck on high definition film on a final exposed printing. From these pressures, in turn, a negative was created with a large production camera - directly to a steel coated photographic plate.

Although adhesive layout the arduous manual kit put an end to this nevertheless took a planned layout and fitted pressure column widths. Mid-1990s, the adhesive layout was replaced by the " computer -to-plate " process, where computer - umbrochene pages were transferred to files directly to the photographic plate. The replacement of some intermediates in the newspaper production for direct disk break allowed much greater flexibility and precision than before.

Design Options

Only partially determine designer or layout artist photo and headline size, especially in magazines. Otherwise, the editors decide the whole page break which items are on which side and where. Well-known newspaper designer Mario Garcia in the U.S., Tim Harrower, Ed Hashey, Ron Reason and Robb Montgomery.

Some of the most influential American newspapers in their editorial layout plays an important role, the Detroit Free Press, the San Jose Mercury News, the Chicago Sun Times and the Virginian Pilot. In Germany, the time, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ( FAS) and Der Tagesspiegel as Best Designed Newspaper of the Society for News Design has been excellent.

• Journalism
• Design