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InDesign For Newspaper covers the basics

Sara-Beth Badalamente, dubbed “OC”, is back at the 2014 MIPA Summer Journalism Workshop teaching InDesign for Newspaper to a class of predominately juniors, with a few sophomore and seniors present. […]

Advanced InDesign class begins with basics

Kicking off their time at the conference, the Advanced InDesign class spent their time reviewing the basics that “most kids already knew,” according to instructor Jim Woehrle. “It’s about designing […]

“Edge” Students Take a New Approach to Yearbook Design

In Lori Oglesbee’s Taking Your Yearbook to the Edge class, students are already busy brainstorming ideas for next year’s yearbooks. “We’re working on developing our yearbook theme,” yearbook student Sierra […]

‘Dueling Divas’ provide websites worth bookmarking

For fresh newspaper design ideas or front page inspiration, look no further. “Dueling Divas” Betsy Rau and Cheryl Pell shared these sites during their presentation on July 28 to spark […]

“Taking Your Yearbook to the Edge” students capture good design

Yearbook students had a chance to walk to Barnes and Noble and take a closer look at professional magazines. By Weston Cowan/Upstart Staff

‘Writing and Design for the Newspaper’ class prepares for sexting issue seminar, creates first news piece

On Aug. 1 in Room 242 of the Communication Arts Building, “Design and Writing for the Newspaper” students were hard at work learning how to create a news story. The […]

InDesign for yearbook learns basic design skills

During the afternoon class on Aug. 1, 2011, the “InDesign for Yearbook” class learned the basic rules of design—contrast, repetition, alignment and proximity (CRAP). The beginning and advanced students spent […]

‘You’re Designing the Newspaper’ teaches design skills fast

Students in the MIPA design class, “You’re Designing the Newspaper,” learned skills necessary to create sophisticated layouts and designs at a fast pace. Adviser Jim McGonnell combined traditional methods of […]

InDesign: “Waiting for Superman”

A collection of page layouts from Alexis Bunka and Jeremy Van Hof’s “InDesign” course based off of the documentary “Waiting for Superman” that MIPA campers screened on Tuesday night.