A designer approached me with a stock guitar photo and requested a “a guitar with a Jewish star on the stock.”
Instead, I called Fender got a guitar image, changed the color, duplicated it five times and wove together the final image. Unfortunately the headline was changed at the last hour, but otherwise the illustration ran as you see it here.
Each year The News-Press produces a special section kicking off the coverage of the Minnesota Twins and Boston Red Sox spring training in Fort Myers. This year the theme was the building blocks of each team. Individual players’ assets were pieced together to form a whole team. The graphic was ‘pasted together’ and ‘tacked up’ in Photoshop.
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I'm an assistant professor teaching interactive storytelling and human centered design at the Medill School of Journalism and the Segal Institute of Design. Previously, I worked at The Poynter Institute redesigning its industry leading website, Poynter Online. And at the St. Petersburg Times and The News-Press in Fort Myers, Fla. redesigning both newspapers. I've also worked as a user interaction designer and a graphic designer during the first Internet bubble.
