2017 Azbee Awards of Excellence
Category
Online > Photo Gallery/Slide Show > Upper Midwest
Awarded to
Thane Rosenbaum, Contributing Writer, Steven P. Hughes, Illustrator; Brenan Sharp, Deputy Design Director; Lee Rawles, Deputy Web Editor
Entry details
The 6 Types of Lawyers You See at the Movies
Issue date (if applicable): 8/1/2016
Publication name: ABA Journal
Publishing company: American Bar Association
Website home page: www.abajournal.com
Please describe the publication's mission and readership:
The ABA Journal is the flagship magazine of the American Bar Association, covering the trends, people and finances of the legal profession and the broader legal services industry.
As a leading voice in legal media, the Journal provides a forum online and in print for the free expression and interchange of ideas. The Journal reports objectively on timely, relevant issues of interest and importance to lawyers and the legal services industry. Readership includes the 400,000 members of the American Bar Association and readers of ABAJournal.com, which is available for free to the public.
Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:
Our annual Law in Popular culture series is always a hit online as well as in print, so this year we chose an illustrator who could design for both. Steven P. Hughes is not only a great photo illustrator, he also produces animated gifs of his work. What better way to generate excitement for an online gallery than with animated slides of celebrities? When author Thane Rosenbaum submitted lawyer movie tropes as this year’s topic, our designer instantly thought of movie trading cards as the basis of illustration. To keep things interesting, he directed that the cards had to resemble motion as well as have moving parts, which is why each slide is dynamically positioned with celebrity actors jutting out of the confines of their respective trading card. In addition to the text, this keeps viewers wondering what each card will look like next and which part of it will be animated.
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http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/6_lawyer_movie_tropes
http://www.abajournal.com/gallery/lawyer_movie_tropes/1293
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The 6 Types of Lawyers You See at the Movies
Category
Online > Photo Gallery/Slide Show > Upper Midwest
Description
Publication name:
ABA Journal
Company:
American Bar Association
Winner Status
- National Silver Award
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