2018 Azbee Awards of Excellence
Category
Design > Front Cover-Photo Illustration > Upper Midwest
Awarded to
Brenan Sharp, Deputy Design Director; Don Levey, Photographer
Entry details
Erasing the News
Issue date (if applicable): 1/1/2017
Publication name: ABA Journal
Publishing company: American Bar Association
Website home page: www.abajournal.com
Please describe the publication's mission and readership:
The flagship magazine of the American Bar Association, the ABA Journal is a general interest legal publication covering the trends, people and finances of the legal industry. Its audience includes the more than 400,000 members of the ABA, readers of ABAJournal.com, those engaged on social media, and podcast listeners.
Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:
Erasing the News covers debate over information privacy on the internet. Sometimes major news stories are completely eradicated this right is invoked. To display this visually, the concept was to have a lawyer reading the newspaper with holes cut out to represent the erased news. With help from photographer Don Levey, our deputy design director sought to make this vision a photographic reality. He bought a French newspaper because France was featured in the story as a country that was heavily involved in the debate over information privacy. At the studio, he took a knife to the paper and cut the holes to create the prop itself. Then, to stiffen the pages and keep them together, he affixed double-sided tape on the insides. It took several shots with three other newspapers with holes cut into them before the final shot was achieved with the French paper. Once the shot was taken, it was rushed back to the ABA Journal to replace the original headlines with French translations of all the actual stories featured in the January issue. While the deputy design director originally wrote the headlines in French himself, the copy editors had the task of making sure the headlines were written with accurate spelling and grammar. For example, "The Gideon Revolution" became "La revolution de Gedeon," while "Building the 21st-Century Law Firm" became "Construire une entreprise du 21eme siecle."
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Erasing the News
Category
Design > Front Cover-Photo Illustration > Upper Midwest
Description
Publication name:
ABA Journal
Company:
American Bar Association
Winner Status
- National Silver Award
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