City of Northglenn Comprehensive Plan
The City of Northglenn Planning and Development Department wanted a design for their comprehensive plan. They supplied the content of text, pictures and graphics. I wanted to make the design as lively as possible, with plenty of break-outs and white space so as to invite the reader in, because comprehensive plan material is very dry material.
Parks and Greenway Trails Guide
The City of Northglenn needed an update for its Parks and Greenway Trails brochure, which details all the parks and paths that line the city. The main design element is the angled bar that criss-crosses throughout the document. This is to mimic the wood signs the city uses to name each of the individual parks.
Coyote Ugly
This was a package piece for the Clovis News-Journal for their Sunday Insight section, detailing how local ranchers and farmers combat Coyotes.
Working with a newspaper, I had a set number of fonts and pre-determined styles from which to work with. The breakthrough came with using the target site. Not only did it relate directly with the subject matter, the site lines extended out into a dividing horizontal line to conform with the design style of the paper.
City of Northglenn Dining Guide
The dining guide lists all the eating establishments in Northglenn. The dining guide is divided into a map and then a list of establishments that are divided by food type. The listings are connected by color coordination by the food styles, along with a unique number for each establishment. This allows for easier location on the map, which has 45 to 50 spots listed at any time.
More then just funny business
I wrote this profile piece for Tom Tjarks, a professional clown. Even before I started the interview, I had this idea of having a series of pictures showing him going from regular to "Buttons" the clown. As I interviewed him, I took pictures as he put on the makeup and outfit (and then later a number of pictures showing him create a balloon animal). Rather than package the photos in a standard rectangle or long line, I cradled the story itself with the photos. This created a unique layout while allowing the eye to flow from photo to photo, rather than jerking the reader from the bottom of the page to the top.
Broomfield Street Map Graphic
This is a graphic for a YourHub.com print edition showing specific locations a number of different places, including a close up on that map.
When I originally got the locations that I had to duplicate in a graphic, I realized immediately that a bunch were so close together they would be indistinguishable unless I zoomed in to a closer area.
Land Preserve Brochure
Brochure for Land Preserve, which takes donations and acquires land for preservation.
Land Preserve needed a brochure that would simultaneously provide information and act as a registration form while conforming to its branding standards.
Croke Reservoir Pamphlet
The city of Northglenn needed a pamphlet for its Croke Reservoir Nature Area. It contains rules, a photo of its remodeled plaza, and a list showing the different animals that one may see there.
The key for this piece was blending in the title of the brochure and the background photo just right so that you could still read the text while not taking away too much from the main photo, which I took.
Channel 8 Slides
These slides actually appear on the City of Northglenn's Channel 8 bulletin board, not print. The city's bulletin board had no consistency from slide to slide, so I set up a consistent format that could be used with just about any notice, whether it had a lot of written content or not.
Northglenn Connection Redesign
The big change in the redesign for "The Northglenn Connection," the monthly newsletter for the City of Northglenn, came on the front page. Briefs of the more important stories in the newsletter replaced a simple list that had everything in the paper. This way, residents who are briefly glancing at the paper and not interested in reading long stories can quickly pick up the most important information in the paper. Also, breakout boxes that could contain plain text (or more preferably, images) were placed at the bottom to highlight certain items. These changes were made to make the front page more attractive and lively.
