We posted our February 2010 issue, and we are open for comments, criticisms and suggestions.
http://paschoolpress.org/home/members/sbidleman/album
Thank you to all those school publications which have been sharing their print issues with us. If you want to exchange issues, drop us a line or send us yours and we will put you on our mailing list.
R&W Production editor Courtney Sabo’s page layout for “A Perfect Ratio” from our Jan. issue is now featured on this international design community, which hosts over 25,000 pages by designers and artists from around the world.
To view Sabo’s entry, visit: http://npd.snd.org/photo/photo/listFeatured?xg_source=msg_feat_photo. The R&W is listed among publications with circulations under 20,000.
Sabo also serves as Editor in Chief of Bloomsburg High School’s monthly magazine.
Just posted our January issue with the hope that someone, anyone will take a look and send us some constructive comments. We have received more comments from NewsPageDesigner than from PSPA members which is quite sad considering. Check out the Album on Sam Bidleman’s member page. Best/Only place to post images.
And as always, we are looking to fill the February pages with some good stories so we will take those suggestions too. This issue – focus on laptops, Warm Across America, the real guitar heroes, 1,000 point scorer, scheduling editorial and a kicking cover illustration.”
i June 4 2009
Whether you’re with the hardcore hold-outs who are sticking with that traditional newspaper format, or you’re one of those crazy newsmagazine hybrid folks, you’ll enjoy reading this article (http://www.editorsweblog.org/analysis/2009/11/a_portuguese_success_story_could_i_be_th.php) touting the success of Portugal’s new daily i that seems to be leading the way in ensuring that our beloved print news medium ain’t dead yet.
It’s that time of year. I mean, the time when the teenagers on your yearbook staff spend way too much picking out a color scheme to accompany the book’s theme. Fortunately, there are many web-based tools out there to speed up this process so that they can get to work!
Whether you have a theme already selected or not, check out Cymbolism. According to the site, it tries to “quantify the association between colors and words, making it simple for designers to choose the best colors for the desired emotional effect.” Whenever you first load the site, you are given word, and asked to choose the color that you associate with the word. Imagine thousands of folks doing this a day, and you’ve got a powerful tool. Click the Words button at the top to check out the results for all of the words on the site, organized alphabetically. You can even compare results over time.
If you like daily inspiration with color schemes, browse on over to COLOURlovers, and check out their blog. Sometimes they find videos or photos and build color schemes based on them, and other posts include unique patterns. In fact, their Palette library contains over 900,000 different user-generated combinations. Regardless, the color combinations are always thought-provoking. This site provides a nice resource for keeping current with current trends in colorful design. Also check out their COPASCO tool to work with custom combinations.
ColoRotate allows you to drag-and-drop colors using a unique 3D tool.
There are many sites out there that allow you to create, mix, match, save, and export color schemes. One of the newest and, in my opinion, coolest, is ColoRotate. ColoRotate is similar to lots of other color scheme generators, with one big exception: you can design schemes in 3D using their unique tool that allows for dragging and dropping of colors. Back in the 2D world, there is a large selection of color combination sites, including:
In addition to the sites above, there also sites that are specifically built to extract/built color palettes based on images that you upload. Each of them has its own little bells and whistles. Here’s a short list:
For even more color palette tools, check out Web Design Booth’s The Ultimate List of Online Color Tools for Web Developers (41 and counting).
