This project was REALLY boring, so I'm not going to make you actually read about it. Basically, it was formatting body copy, which is not terribly interesting all by itself (although having nice-looking copy is very satisfying, and the work isn't awful...more mindless than anything), but when you add to it the 7 other pages of identical, terribly edited text, it gets a lot more tedious.
Now, I was lazy on mine (by which I mean efficient for a change) and used the same background and headlines for all my pages. I was forgetful on mine as well and forgot to put the damn magazine name/page number on my main page template, which means it's not on any of the pages. It's going to reflect badly on my grade, but I noticed about ten minutes after I turned them in, which is a bit too late to fix errors. Argh.
There were 8 in all. Flush left, justified, 2 and 3 column, with and without pull quotes, but I'm going to just show you a few because DAYUM. I know you won't look at them, and I can't blame you. I really don't want to look at them ever again, either, so we're square. Mostly because of the typos, really...I wanted to re-write this thing so badly, but I wasn't allowed. Sentence fragments, no real organization, ugh. Godawful. The editor in me wanted to murder someone. The designer in me made the editor in me shut up and just do the damn thing. I anticipate some friction between those parties in the future...
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