Ed Brud This is Me

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1. 1. JS Online

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   Published on: 2/3/2008   Last Visited: 2/3/2008

   Ed Brud, Visual Editor

2. 2. JS Online

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   Published on: 5/29/2005   Last Visited: 5/29/2005

   Ed Brud, News Design Coordinator

3. 3. Design With Reason: "The Elements of Style(books)"

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   Published on: 4/27/2000   Last Visited: 8/3/2001

   Ed Brud , design editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , wrote on Feb. 16 , 1998 :. ''While reading some of your material in the Poynter Institute's Virtual Seminar in Design/Type/Color , I noticed that you advocated design stylebooks for newsrooms. The news design desk at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is just starting to work to compile such a book and we're looking for examples from other newspapers across the country. Our situation is a bit different from the ones you describe in your web literature , in that we are divided between designers and copy editors ( though your example of dummying in one room and editing in another often fits ). Though there are fewer hands on the buttons of design , there are still enough , and our design is complex enough , that my supervisors decided a stylebook would be desirable. I thought you might be able to help locate examples of such work and maybe offer tips on how to create a useful book. I'd appreciate any tips you might offer.
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   Thanks for your time.'' Well , Ed , first I recommend that any newsroom larger than two people have at least a basic design stylebook. Especially accompanying a redesign , a stylebook is almost always a good thing. It will reduce questions of style relating to your design and production , for newcomers and old-timers alike and reduce inconsistencies in the paper. A stylebook will also allow your staff to focus on more important issue , like writing better headlines , selecting and cropping better photos , and originating better ideas for illustrations and graphics. One of the big challenges at the Boston Herald , I thought , when I began this redesign a while back was the lack of a stylebook. Each section of the paper had its own logos and sigs ; wildly varying styles had cropped up over the years and the paper looked cluttered. Everyone lamented the lack of a stylebook , so of course the creation of one would come to be a key ingredient to the project.