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‘Boston Globe’ archive

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Dec. 30, 2011: A cool movie roundup page by the Boston Globe’s Ryan Huddle

Ryan Huddle of the Boston Globe sends along this movie year in review page from last Sunday’s paper. Click for a larger look: Ryan tells us: This is a new style that I have wanted to do for a while now but never had the right project to do it on. The people at the bottom of the page are [...]

Dec. 9, 2011: Inside the Boston Globe’s eye-catching, high-end ‘style’ gift guide

Thursday, the Boston Globe ran its annual “style” holiday gift guide. The guide appeared in the Globe‘s regular features section, which is a tabloid. The custom type treatment features design supervisor Martin Gee created for the cover reminds us a lot of the Lite Brite sets we had as kids. The inside pages displayed all sorts of high-end luxury items [...]

Dec. 5, 2011: A look at Red Sox managers (1)

Boston Red Sox fans love their baseball. And they have no love at all for managers who can’t produce numbers in the W column. With the hiring of Bobby Valentine as the team’s 45th manager, the Boston Globe took the opportunity Friday to look back over the managerial history of the Sox, with special emphasis on the winners and losers. [...]

Nov. 23, 2011: The Muppets take Manhattan… and Boston… and Dubuque and Elyria and Crystal Lake

Unless you’ve been hiding behind a plate of fried frog legs today, you probably know that the next blockbuster movie opened today: The Muppets. Now, this one I’d like to see. Last week’s Twilight movie? Not so damned much. I already showed you a cool Muppets treatment from last Sunday’s Boston Globe and I asked you to send me more. [...]

Nov. 22, 2011: The Boston Globe’s take on the upcoming Muppet movie

Master designer Ryan Huddle created this for the movies front of last Sunday’s Boston Globe. “Heart felt.” Get it? Wocka-wocka. Four pages later, you find the jump page. Which is where you see the back side of the front page illustration. Mixed into the many Muppet characters in the audience are stars who famously made guest appearances in various Muppet [...]

Nov. 18, 2011: Features treatments for the new Twilight movie (3)

As I write this, my daughter is at the early morning showing of Breaking Dawn, Part One, the new — and penultimate — movie in the Twilight series. I managed to talk her out of the midnight showing last night but couldn’t keep her away any longer. What did stay away were features treatments of this movie. Even after a [...]

Nov. 15, 2011: Brilliant ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ parody in the Boston Globe

Cartoonist Ward Sutton created a full page commentary piece for Sunday’s Boston Globe, comparing the administration of President Barack Obama to the to the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series of children’s books by Jeff Kinney. The “news peg”: The latest book in the series is released today. Click for a larger view: This is a downright brilliant observation. It [...]

Oct. 28, 2011: Four great Halloween features page treatments (1)

Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year. One big reason why: You can have a lot of fun with it in the pages of your newspaper. Halloween isn’t until Monday, so I imagine we’ll see quite a bit of stuff this weekend. But let’s kick off the weekend right with four examples of newspapers setting the mood [...]

Oct. 7, 2011: What we need on a Friday: A little dose of Martin Gee (2)

I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking that life seems a little dull and drab these days, primarily because it’s been so long since you’ve had a good, healthy dose of Martin Gee. Well, fear not. Here is the front cover of the Tuesday features tab of the Boston Globe, featuring a wonderful and wacky vegan-themed illustration by the man [...]

Sept. 29, 2011: A quick look at today’s baseball playoff pages

Well! While many of we visual journalists are en route to St. Louis for the Society for News Design conference, the regular baseball season ended with some of the most memorable fireworks ever. A  quick roundup of playoff pages… — ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH St. Louis, Mo. Circulation: 196,232 The hometown paper here in town was in a bind this week. [...]

Sept. 10, 2011: The most notable of Friday’s and Saturday’s 9/11 anniversary pages (1)

Oh, the 9/11 tribute pages have come fast and furious late this week. Dozens upon dozens of them. Many of them looking the same. There’s simply no way to show them all. I hope your feelings don’t get hurt if I leave yours out. Expecting to see a ton of pages tomorrow, I thought we’d look back tonight and pull [...]

Sept. 7, 2011: Wednesday’s notable 9/11 anniversary pages (1)

Since we last met to talk about 9/11 anniversary pages, a number of papers sent us a few of their 9/11 pages. Before we dive into today’s work, let’s take a look at those pages, shall we? — NEVADA SAGEBRUSH University of Nevada, Reno Enrollment: 17,679 Designer Riley Snyder of the University of Nevada’s weekly student paper tells us: We’ve [...]

Sept. 6, 2011: 9/11 anniversary pages: The Boston Globe (1)

Our first example of the tenth-anniversary 9/11 presentations is the Boston Globe, circulation 219,214. The Globe started a series on Sunday looking back at the attacks and how we’ve moved on — or not — since then. Day one looked at four families that lost loved ones that day. The designer for this package was Greg Klee. The pictures are [...]

Aug. 30, 2011: Tuesday’s 20 best Hurricane Irene front pages (6)

I can’t possibly hope to top yesterday’s Hurricane Irene roundup. So today, let’s take a look at the top 20 pages of the day, as found this morning at the Newseum… ———————————- THE PERSONAL TOUCH Several papers expended their front-page centerpieces today showing personal tales of loss and salvation. — NEWS & RECORD Greensboro, N.C. Circulation: 60,993 One of the [...]

Aug. 28, 2011: Up the East Coast with Hurricane Irene, via Sunday front pages (5)

Well. That storm certainly fizzled, now, didn’t it? Naturally, I’m delighted that’s the case. I was so terrified for my poor old house, back in Virginia Beach. I wasn’t happy about evacuating to Atlanta for the weekend. Still, though, at the time we left — Thursday evening — it was the right thing to do. The best-case scenario was always [...]

Aug. 1, 2011: How to make sure you’re making good use of Twitter

The folks at the Boston Globe know how to make themselves more aware of their Twitter use. They’re posting screens around their newsroom that show their various web pages. But up at the top is a screen that shows the latest staff tweets. The Globe‘s “creative technologist” Chris Marstall writes: We’re calling the project Information Radiator, and eventually it will [...]

July 22, 2011: A look at Captain America movie treatments

I don’t have a lot for you today. But what I have is pretty decent, I think. — BOSTON GLOBE Boston, Mass. Circulation: 219,214 You may recall the large Harry Potter presentation my pal Ryan Huddle created a couple of weeks ago for the Boston Globe. Here’s the piece he built for last Sunday’s Globe. Meanwhile, features design supervisor Martin [...]

July 20, 2011: The Boston Globe takes on misuse of the word ‘literally.’ (3)

Here’s the best Boston Globe features section front you’ll see all day. Literally. It was designed by Martin Gee, the Globe‘s features design supervisor. And the topic, obviously, is misuse of the word “literally.” Martin tells us: The headlines are set in our body copy typeface (Miller Globe Text). Here’s the inside spread. Click on either page for a larger [...]

July 17, 2011: The best of today’s visual journalism: ‘Carmageddon,’ space junk and movie heroes (1)

Here’s a look at some of the day’s more notable visual journalism offerings, as found at the Newseum… ———————————————- LOS ANGELES’ ‘CARMAGEDDON’ The big story of the day in Southern California was the mother of all traffic jams — “Carmageddon” — expected by the temporary closure of Interstate 405. Which kind of fizzled, according to most reports. — LOS ANGELES [...]

July 14, 2011: Enjoy even more of today’s Harry Potter treatments

I posted a nice batch of Harry Potter pages this morning and then took the rest of the day off from blogging to take my daughter to her community college orientation. When I returned, my e-mail basket was overflowing with more Potter pages. Now, we’re talking! So fill up your coffee muggle and settle in to look over a few [...]

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