Had a pretty good response from my attempt at getting the message out to everyone about what they need to submit and when by (today)...



...which has meant I have been able to make some progress with getting the work into the layouts. Here are the 8 pages so far...










After a pretty long slog - I wanted to check my progress and converted the pages into a PDF to check their flick-ability... and its rubbish. It could be to do with me sitting in front of this layout all day. I've been reading about layouts using text in notes and handouts in my type journal. I've been fighting off widows & orphans, keeping columns narrow (but not too narrow), keeping my point at a good size and I've been lining up images with the text.

Hopefully I can talk to a tutor tomorrow to get some advice on what I'm doing wrong and how I could make it better.

Is it the colours?

Is it the mish mash of hand drawn titles?

Are my text boxes too different on each page? (can't be helped with different word counts - but maybe theres a way of handling it better?)

Its a shame there are no more crits left. This brief came along quite late in the project so I'm now beginning to realise how important peer assessment can be - and also receiving critical feedback from tutors.