Lucky
I describe myself this way today because I got the chance to design a page mostly on Live 8 for the Sunday paper. It’s one of those things that I like to give myself a pat on the back for and to say, “Hey, I put together how someone will remember something that made history.”
It’s a maddening process as you try to select the most touching images, edit the right amount of copy and build a page that will entice readers to stop and look at it. Also, you have the added pressure of telling history. This is the stuff people clip out and save in photo albums and scrapbooks.
The same thing was running through my mind during the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. I didn’t design the front for the first day of war, but I did the second with the first causalities more than two years ago.
At the end, I selected images that I felt caputred the day, running about six photos to go with the story. I’ll get my feedback Tuesday.
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