20 November 2008

Reading Assignment No. 3/Blog Assignment No. 6

Reading Assignment No. 3
Publication Design Workbook, pp 64–65
Publication Design Workbook, pp 182–191
Creative Characters
Rising Stars
In Your Face
Fontshop Newsletter Archive
Emigre News

Blog Assignment No. 6
Compare and contrast the examples of printed newsletters in Publication Design Workbook to the email/HTML newsletters above:

  • What similarities do the different formats share? What visual clues indicate the serial nature of the publications?

  • What are the major differences? How does the format limit the presentation of the content?

  • Of the printed newsletters shown in PDW, which layouts do you think would readily translate into an email newsletter? Why?

  • Fontshop and Emigre publish digital newsletters as well as more traditional printed newsletter style promotions? Why?

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