Irish Sun News pages
When I first started in the newspaper, I was told to forget everything I’d learned in college and apply the rule that white space is wasted space. The Sun newspaper's approach to editorial design is bigger and bolder is better. Contrary to how it looks, The Sun layout style has an abundance of rules. Headlines, subdeck, fonts, colours, and strict spacing between elements. There are very defined guidelines. The rules allow for large amounts of content on the pages without having to sacrifice its boisterous and cartoon-like style.
The part I enjoyed most about working in The Irish Sun was getting to use a range of skills every day. Once the pencil-drawn scheme was handed over, my job was to source the images, layout the page, typography, image processing, placing adverts, correspond with sub-editors and marketing, checking for page clashes and any graphic design elements that may have to be required such as extensions and composites.
