Elias Harris-Bommarito

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International Panorama Council Newsletter Design
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For one of my typography classes in undergrad, we were assigned to design a layout template for the International Panorama Council, panoramacouncil.org, a group dedicated to preserving and showcasing panoramas. When designing the newsletter template, there was an opportunity for our designs to be chosen by the International Panorama Council  themselves, and for their newsletters going forward to use whichever design they selected. Typography is one of my favorite aspects of design and I feel incredibly honored that my design was the one that they chose going forward. It first debuted in the 47th issue of the newsletter which can be found here. 

Although my design is an early iteration from the final one, the overall structure and layout is nearly identical. A big driving factor for this design was the full page images to really draw in the readers attention and to provide a spotlight for the artists work. The final version of the newsletter that was published has a few different images and articles that were not available at that time since it was still a work in progress. I made everything clean and easy to understand, and by doing so I chose a simple sans-serif typeface for the main titles and author names as well as a very classic looking serif font for the main body text of the newsletter. I felt that a two-column format let itself to have a very classic newsletter look, but that still left a lot of room for the text itself to stand alone. 

When designing, I had to make sure that the newsletter would work both in a digital format and a print format. For the most part, there’s no major differences between the digital and print format however the images in the print design are not full page images as printing to the very edge of the paper left the image with a border that I did not like. Instead I decided to just have more white space around the image that frames it on the page and still take up a majority of the space available.