One of the first layouts I did in my new capacity as Musicworks' Art Director, and a pretty good test to see just how much I was going to be allowed to get away with.
Thomas, Farah, and D'eon
Responding to the Editor's concerns about how I had taken the separate elements of the tease, headline, subhead and byline and mashed it all together, I said:
"...my original point of typesetting it that way is that, when strung together, the tease, the head and the sub-head just read as one sentence. I rather enjoy the slightly subversive way it controverts established rules for laying out a headline (also why I didn't change the font, weight or size of the byline). There's a headline, but there is no headline.
Responding to the Editor's concerns about how I had taken the separate elements of the tease, headline, subhead and byline and mashed it all together, I said:
"...my original point of typesetting it that way is that, when strung together, the tease, the head and the sub-head just read as one sentence. I rather enjoy the slightly subversive way it controverts established rules for laying out a headline (also why I didn't change the font, weight or size of the byline). There's a headline, but there is no headline.
If I were a theorizing kind of guy, I might throw in that in my own way it's an interpretation of what I see in the story: no winks, nods or cutesy business — just a fairly sober and straightforward rendering that takes those various pieces and elevates them all to a status of equal weight.
Or something like that."
Or something like that."
Tim Hecker's music is full of little glitches and twitches, so when I was working on a somewhat more straight-forward version of this layout and InDesign decided to go a little redraw buggy on me, I screengrabbed a couple of samples and worked them back into the layout. Sometimes inspiration comes from fairly unexpected places...
