Thursday, February 01, 2007

Evaluate newsletter, bulletin design

Dive into a newsletter and bulletin redesign by first getting a few copies of publications from other churches. That feels less threatening. Then, check out all the principles, guidelines, traps, and tips on this site and those sites linked from here. Lastly, apply those to the sample pubs you now have.

A good way to evaluate the pubs is to use a rubric. The Educational Service Center, Fort Worth, Texas, has a newsletter design rubric (PDF) you can download and print. It scores against major design principles:
  • Contrast
  • Repetition
  • Alignment
  • Proximity
  • Graphics

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