OUGD403 | STUDY TASK THREE | CRIT

During today's presentation of our newspaper layouts, our group was paired up with group 4 and both of us talked about how we went about completing this task. We received a good amount of feedback and critique that has helped us think to further improve our design.

our layout we created.

The first issue that was raised was the readability of the title whilst it was in a magazine. It could be argued that the word "begins" when stapled into the magazine may become hard to read and break down the title structure. A way to improve this problem would be to have the title on just one side of the layout or maybe use the text more tactically to ensure that a word does not get caught in the middle.

Another thing that was mentioned was the alignment of the text. We decided to align the text to the right, as it simply looked better with the sharp edges of the gun image. Questions were asked by the other group as to why we decided to do this and that it perhaps would look better flushed left or justified. However they did say that since we have such a 'quirky' style layout that it could work.

Overall though, group 4 really liked the way we had gone about the task and how the layout wasn't your average, traditional article. They thought it fitted well with the target audience and it would be appropriate for a university magazine.

Improvements:

Here we have edited the alignment of the text, and whilst keeping the headline spanning the whole of the double spread, it would now be easier to read when stapled in a magazine.