Layout allows for one to be creative, and creates a remarkable design to newspaper pages that appeals to the readers eye. When laying out the Perspective, students on the staff work with a program called Adobe InDesign.

InDesign provides the necessary applications to add drop caps to stories, text wrap articles around photos, add an array of color, create graphs and fact boxes, drop shadow pictures and boxes to give them a three-dimensional feel along with much more.

These elements enhance the appearance of the page and are fun in the process. When joining the newspaper myself, I had no idea that designing the page was something I would have the opportunity to do. Actually, when I joined the newspaper the layout of the page never came to my mind because I assumed it was something the newspaper staff was unable to do. I clearly was wrong, and am rather happy I was.

After joining the newspaper and realizing all you can do with it, especially layout, I was intrigued. After learning how to use InDesign I was able to be creative and layout Feature pages (more artsy then news pages).

My most recent page designs was the feature on Nick Thompson, who can complete the Rubik’s Cube in 74 seconds that appeared in the October 9^th edition along with the Broke feature that appeared in the October 29^th issue.

Anyone who has ever been interested in being creative and artsy, doing newspaper layout is great. Like I said before, being apart of the student newspaper and or any newspaper for that matter truly offers more than just the writing aspect.

Next week, advertising.

~Summer Gemmati