DESIGN
CHRIS SNIDER

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14
TIPS FOR
BETTER
DESIGN

1. Good design defined

Good design...
• Make it easy to read
• Make it easy to find
• Make it visually attractive

2. Give your page
hierarchy

Hierarchy
• Dominant image
• Dominant headline
• Things get smaller as you go down the page
to draw your eye through the page

3. Sketch first

4. Keep it simple

5. Use white space

6. Use a grid

Giant pig threatens mankind

Giant pig threatens mankind

7. Respect the
reader’s time

8. Tell a story
through design

Design process
• What is the story I am trying to tell?
• How do I tell that story through design?
• What elements do I have to tell the story?

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11-PAGE WAR REVIEW IN NEWSWATCH | SECTION B
AFTERMATH OF WAR
Fence-mending could begin this week in U.N. Security Council
“
BY JON SAWYER
Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau Chief ON TO FRANCE?
President George W. Bush has RUSSIA
agreed to visit France when it hosts Late next month President
“It would be WASHINGTON — Now that the the summit of industrialized SYRIA RUSSIA
George W. Bush travels to
military part of the Iraq campaign St. Petersburg to meet
in the U.S. is largely done, the administration
democracies beginning June 1. High Secretary of State Colin with Russian President
on the agenda: Repairing the strains Powell plans to visit
national of President George W. Bush is re- from French and German opposition Damascus "soon," he says,
Vladimir Putin, with both
engaging the world diplomatically, sides reportedly eager to
security to the U.S.-led war on Iraq. to press U.S. demands on look beyond their
on issues ranging from Iraq’s im- chemical weapons, ex-
interest to disagreements on Iraq.
mediate neighborhood to the larger Iraqi leaders and Syria's
Middle East peace process, North support for anti-Israel IRAN
bring U.N. UNITED
U.S. is looking for
Korea’s nuclear weapons program, KINGDOM POLAND terrorist groups.
inspectors and repair of relations between the GERMANY leverage to keep Iran
SLOVAKIA UKRAINE KAZAKHSTAN from making mischief
into Iraq United States and its allies in west-
FRANCE in neighboring Iraq or
ern Europe and Russia. ATLANTIC HUNGARY MONGOLIA
now, to help In those and related trouble
OCEAN ROMANIA Afghanistan, and from
NORTH
Caspian going nuclear at home.
find these spots, according to administration Black Sea
GEORGIA Sea
KOREA
officials and outside experts alike, ITALY Sea of
weapons.” Bush’s approach is likely to be
SPAIN
TURKEY TURKMEN. Japan
GREECE
more consensual and consultative JAPAN
Joseph SOUTH
Cirincione, than was apparent in the tough ISRAEL Mediterranean Sea SYRIA AFGHAN. CHINA KOREA
TUNISI IRAQ
of the Carnegie talk of pre-emptive unilateralism The Bush A IRAN
in the run-up to war with Iraq. administration has
Endowment for
Over the next six weeks the ad- pledged to press PAKISTAN NEPAL NORTH KOREA
International ALGERIA
”
forward soon, possibly EGYPT The Bush administration
Peace ministration is planning a diplomat- LIBYA
within the next few has agreed to talks with
ic blitz nearly as dramatic — and weeks, on the "road
Red INDIA TAIWA
Sea SAUDI North Korea in Beijing, as
more broad-ranging — than the as- map" to creation of ARABIA early as this week, on steps
HONG KONG
sault on Baghdad. On the schedule: an independent OMAN Arabian to dismantle North Korea's
MALI SUDAN
I Direct talks in Beijing with Palestinian state.
NIGER CHAD Sea
Bay of VIETNA nuclear weapons
illegal
the North Koreans on their illegal YEMEN Bengal development program.
Iraqi police nuclear weapons program, as ear-
arrest Sad- ly as this week. NIGERIA
I Publication of the long-de- LIFTING U.N. SANCTIONS ON IRAQ
dam’s finance The Security Council is likely to
layed “road map” for reviving the INDIAN PACIFIC
chief. A5 Israeli-Palestinian peace process,
take up this issue as soon as OCEAN INDIA–PAKISTAN OCEAN
Tuesday, when it also debates Crisis between the two
with specific steps leading toward possible renewed U.N. role in
ATLANTIC nuclear powers over
Pentagon creation of an independent Pales- OCEAN search for weapons of mass
tinian state. Kashmir remains at hair-
envisions destruction in Iraq. trigger level, with U.S.
maintaining I A meeting between Bush and
pressing each side to step
Russian President Vladimir back from the brink.
four military Putin, in St. Petersburg, Russia, at
bases in the end of next month.
Iraq. A9 See Diplomacy, A10
World watches as U.S. hunts for weapons of mass destruction
crushed the government of Saddam administration either flowed from, counterterrorism analyst for the De- U.S. goals, as stated
Hussein, one question looms larger or were secondary to, the need to fense Intelligence Agency.
Final judgment may hinge each day: Where are the weapons of eliminate Saddam’s stockpiles of Following the coalition’s defeat of before the war
mass destruction? weapons, analysts say. Iraq, two facts stand out:
on what search yields Iraq’s possession of chemical and “We made weapons of mass de- I Iraq used no weapons of mass I Destroy weapons of mass destruction
biological weapons and pursuit of struction the pivot point for our ar- destruction against American and I Change the regime
nuclear weapons was the key reason gument, especially given the fact British forces, despite Pentagon
BY PHILIP DINE I Eliminate sources of terrorist aid
President George W. Bush advanced that he had already proven himself warnings of field commanders being
Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau for the invasion. He cited the danger happy to use them,” said Tom supplied with such arms. I Liberate the Iraqi people
that the weapons could be used Sanderson, deputy director of the I No evidence of weapons of mass I Enforce U.N. resolutions
WASHINGTON — More than a against the United States or given to transnational threats initiative at the destruction in Iraq has yet been
month after the U.S.-led coalition at- terrorists. Center for Strategic and Interna- found. I Boost prospect for democracy
tacked Iraq and a week after it Other explanations offered by the tional Studies. Sanderson is a former See Weapons, A10 in the Middle East
Church choir members rejoice in their role HUMAN GENOME SEQUENCING PROJECT
This is especially true on Easter, the most joyful of Christian celebrations, when music can speak to the soul.
Scientists say map may lead
BY PATRICIA RICE
Post-Dispatch Religion Writer
Choir at New Sunnymount Mis-
sionary Baptist Church in the
city’s Walnut Park neighbor-
Wanetta
Price to new medical frontiers
T
(center) of
his Easter Sunday, mu- hood.
St. Louis,
sic will reach the hearts While music can move peo- BY TINA HESMAN Just like any set of instruc-
of those who worship as ple in any religious service, it’s rehearses Of the Post-Dispatch tions, the next challenge is deci-
nothing else can. especially true at Easter, the this month phering the directions.
It will calm the hurried as most joyful of all Christian with the Scientists around the world are That’s a formidable job, but the
they arrive and help them fo- feasts. choir of New celebrating the publication of a ge- results could be revolutionary. Sci-
cus on what many Christians More than 2,800 Christian Sunnymount netic owner’s manual for a human entists say the work could lead to:
call the presence of God. churches in the region are ob- Missionary being, an accomplishment that I New ways to treat human
People who daydream serving Easter with hallelujahs Baptist could change medicine forever. diseases of all kinds.
through a sermon, or are puz- and alleluias Sunday. Eastern Church in The manual, published on the I Better definitions of diseases,
zled by language in a Scripture Orthodox Christians will cele- the city’s Internet, diagrams the human such as cancer, so that more effec-
reading, can get the gospel brate Easter next weekend, on genome — the entire set of genes tive therapies can be designed.
Walnut Park
message in repetitive lyrics, April 27. and other mysterious pieces of See DNA, A15
said Priscilla Smith. Smith, 53, Music also ministers. neighbor- DNA that contain instructions
is a soprano in the Chancel See Easter, A4 DAVID CARSON / POST-DISPATCH
hood. for building a human body. “Unlocking DNA” timeline, A14
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10. Look at what
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11. A photo is not
always the answer

12. A “story” is not
always the answer

13. Know your
design programs

14. Plan ahead