Trouble with Newsletters – Peyton Drew Bryant

My time with InDesign so far has been great. However, I think I may need a lot more time practicing in terms of formatting my layouts for text-heavy pieces of material like a Newsletter.

Getting around blocks of text.

Here, I wanted to make something different about consecutive pages, and put the header and photo on the left. This left an odd gap on the left of the title I think would have been better filled.

One of the reasons I had so much trouble with this type of assignment was definitely the amounts of text I have to work around. I ended up with a bunch of white space that I think added to the cohesion of the entire newsletter, but I still think I could have done better.

In this part of my newsletter, I put a jump article at the top, continuing from a piece on the first page. Keeping things consistent, I wanted to keep the font sizes the same. This meant that a gap would appear on the right of the section, and I almost feel I should have put something there.

Between the spaces

Another thing I could have done better with was the spacing between text and photos, as well as making sure font sizes for consistent.

Being precise with this part of design is something I need to hone down. I need to do this by getting better used to the tools I’m using and planning a better layout before I put text on the page.

In this section of my newsletter, I put the picture used in an odd place. It looks uneven because it is.

Overall I have a lot to learn about newsletters and formatting with indesign. I love what the tool can do but until I can get more precise with my designs, it’ll get me nowhere.

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