Newspaper Designer's Handbook with CD-ROM - Softcover

Harrower, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072492910 ISBN 13: 9780072492910

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2001

Synopsis

The Newspaper Designer’s Handbook is a step by step guide to every aspect of newspaper design, from basic page layout to complex infographics. The new edition is now in 4-color and introduces a new chapter on web design.

This textbook is for journalism students and professionals alike. It is loaded with examples, advice, design ideas, and exercises that teach students how to manipulate the basic elements of design (photos, headlines, and text); create charts, maps, and diagrams; design attractive photo spreads; add effective, appealing sidebars to complex stories; create lively, engaging feature page designs; work with color; and redesign a newspaper.

About this title

From the Publisher:

New Student CD-ROM: A free student CD-ROM is packaged with every new copy of the text. The CD-ROM contains exercises to reinforce concepts in the text.
Online Media Chapter: A new chapter introduces principles for designing online.
4-color: Now in full color, the fifth edition expands coverage of designing with color.
As with all editions, this text introduces students to the building blocks of newspaper design: headlines, texts, photos, cutlines, and more.
Along with the main building blocks of newspaper design, this text teaches students how to use logos, teasers, and charts and graphs to make more complicated pages work.
A humorous writing style helps make the concepts memorable.
COMPING GUIDELINES: Course found in the journalism or mass communication department. Course usually titled Newspaper Designing (or a variation).

About the Author:

Tim Harrower is a renowned journalism educator and consultant.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0072492910
• ISBN 13: 9780072492910
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 272