The Fall Sports Guide was a little sleeker and more well thought out overall, although I was less hands on in it's creation and more of a director conceptually (hey, like what a real art director should be!). It was also published after the addition of the weekend tab section of the paper, where all "special sections" are now regulated. To be honest, I didn't like working in this format overall for sports, but it worked out pretty well for the cover, which is after the jump.
This is probably the 2nd or 3rd draft of this idea, as I ended up having to sacrifice a few issues like spacing and word placement to the fact that the sports boys refused to let me lead off with less popular sports. 
That's how it finally appeared in the paper. I'm personally still partial to my placement of the words Fall Sports, but I compromise is king.
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Fall Sports Guide 2007
Monday, December 3, 2007
Spring Sports Guide 07
The Winter Sports Guide is upon me, and so I thought it would be appropriate to look back on the Spring Sports Guide. The Spring Sports Guide was actually the second sports guide I was involved in, the first being last winters, although I don't really count last winters as 1) I had just started working and so didn't even know it was happening until the night Seth was doing it, and 2) all I contributed to it was some awful drop shadowing.
The Spring Sports guide 2007 was one of the first things I did at the paper that I was really proud of. I'd been here for about 5 months at the time, and really got the opportunity to stretch my wings creatively and put to use some things I had taught myself. Seth (our sports editor) being on his own for the guide meant that I ended up with a larger hand in it, and together we came up with some really fun things. The Spring Sports Guide ran as a part of the broadsheet for the last time (it now runs as a tabloid sized insert). Following the jump, the cover of the Spring Guide, which ran in late March 2007.
The cover was put together using Quark, although I tried a few different things with varying degrees of success before that. All of the photographs are by Jared Gruenwald and Krystle Marcellus.