Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!oddjob!ncar!ames!oliveb!sun!hburford@enprt.Wichita.NCR.COM From: hburford@enprt.Wichita.NCR.COM (Harry Burford) Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop Subject: Re: Publish! Page Makeover Message-ID: <55530@sun.uucp> Date: 6 Jun 88 19:49:45 GMT Sender: news@sun.uucp Distribution: comp Lines: 48 Approved: desktop-request%plaid@sun.com |>Publish! magazine has done a complete makeover of itself in the June |>issue, and asked for comments from it's readers about whether or not |>they improved things. I think it'd be an interesting discussion here as |>well as a way of opening up a discussion of design concepts in general. |>What do you folks think? I think they made a major step backward rather than forward in their redesign. I got my copy the other day and it sat in the in basket for quite a while. Had to search for the title since they went with the VERY narrow and TALL cover name. Yuk! The old style wasn't quite Old English, but you could definitly read it across the room and you KNEW what magazine it was. Take a trip to the magazine store and look at all of them lined up on the rack. Which one gets your attention and makes you want to read it. For me, its not the new and improved Publish! layout. I guess I'm going to have to spend additional time when I go thru mags. and digest the layout as well as the information in them. Often, when I'm in a time crunch, I'll quickly thumb thru a mag reading the high points and then saving the details for later. I really had to work to figure out what pages were ads and what pages had articles, and where those articles started. I got the impression that the Publish! folks told their design staff to include as many DTP tricks as they could in the magazine and not to be conserned with readability. For example, how about the article starting on Pg. 70. Screened box and art on EVERY page and placed in such a way that a reader has to stop reading to find the top of the next column. To complicate things further they even did a wrap around on page 75. The 7 line tall enlarged first character of each section adds to the confusion. Really looks sharp! I'm going to frame the mag. and hang it on the wall. Its by far too hard to read. There you have it Chuq. You wanted to generate feedback. -- Harry Burford - NCR E & M Wichita, Printer Engineering PHONE: 316-636-8016 FAX: 316-636-8889 Harry.Burford@Wichita.NCR.COM C-Serve: 76367,151 ---------------------------------------- Submissions to: desktop@plaid.sun.com Administrivia to: desktop-request@plaid.sun.com UUCP: {amdahl,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4}!sun!plaid!desktop{-request} Archives can be gotten from the archive-server. To get information on the archive-server, send mail to: archive-server@plaid.sun.com -or- sun!plaid!archive-server with a subject line of help