Squadroddels 2018-2019
After two successful years, another three magazines for members of Groningen's student squash club. Again some time went into the redesign for improvements
As a team of four guys (excluding some guest writers) we work on the three 80 page magazines for this year. Because of the many international members the club has, a substantial amount of the writing is in English.
Roles and Responsibilities
Project lead, layout and design, as well as doing interviews, writing articles and competition reports;
- setting up the styles in InDesign
- all editing in InDesign
- icon design in Illustrator
- interviews with committee members
- various articles on squash and related topics
Final Product
This year there's more focus on photography, with a cover image for every article. Typography was more optimized for readability.
Compared to the previous magazines, paragraphs are a bit longer and wider, making it a bit easier to read.
Videos are of course all clickable and jump straight into the match.
Three column page design for top five-ish articles. In the future the blue bars with headings will be moved up to have the same spacing between the image above and text below.
Every second page of a story is in a slightly different layout, with the top and bottom bar being smaller and missing the squash ball, to make it easy to scan for articles.
Process and Methods
Starting off with a few recurring items like tournaments, competition and Squadraat events to personal columns and guest writers' pieces, mostly the editing starts a week or two before release, with an email update with PDF every evening (or night) to the entire team.
Toughest Challenge
Getting people to finish their pieces in time ;)
What I'd do Differently
The next issues need higher quality photography, especially from internal events.
Tools Used
- LibreOffice Writer: writing
- Illustrator: cover art, icon design and certified seals
- Photoshop: cover art, custom artwork, rounded cutouts, removing backgrounds
- InDesign: editing, layout