For this weekly project that I think each of us will do twice during the semester, the iPad designers go and take specific sections from the print edition and translate them into a digital format. The trick creating a successful iPad page is not putting too much information into such a small space like you do in print and making sure to keep it visual with more pictures and pull quotes.
The most challenging part of the designing, however, is making sure the pages have the same information in both portrait and landscape modes. The means, you can not have a picture on a page in one direction that you don't have in the other. Since this was my first try at designing for the iPad, I wasn't aware of that. So my first draft of one section had to have some minor editing after I go a little overzealous with images in one direction - landscape - but not portrait. It also felt a little strange to design the landscape direction, especially coming from a newspaper where everything is so vertical. Once I got over that, it was fairly to create the pages and the product looked great.
I feel like I got the easy part this time around because I was responsible for doing most of the department pages instead of the feature. However, I think this was for the best since my partner for the project also did the design for the print edition, so he was very familiar with how it should be laid out in on the digital platform. Yay, Nick!
So, without further ado, I give you my iPad pages in a combination of portrait and landscape:
First of all, I really love the old trunks for the landscape of the books section. So, if you found that, I love you. Also, one small thing that I like is the landscape design with the photo of the man and the large pull quote. I almost feel like he's saying it to me, so I like that! It's fancy.
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