2020 Azbee Awards of Excellence

Awarded to

Amanda Fry, Designer

Entry details

Issue or publication date: September-October 2019
Publication name: ABA Journal
Publishing company: American Bar Association
Website home page: ABAJournal.com

Please describe the publication's mission and readership:

The ABA Journal is the flagship magazine for the American Bar Association and signature publication for the legal profession. The Journal is an award-winning, dynamic multimedia platform delivering legal journalism with an independent voice. The Journal informs, engages and stimulates important conversations that define the American legal system and help it respond to important issues of the day. The Journal and its companion website, newsletters and podcasts ensure it has among the largest readership of any legal publication in the world. While the Journal serves as a key benefit to members of the American Bar Association, it maintains editorial independence and integrity, allowing it to provide critical coverage of the trends, people and business of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:

Since our contents page is also the first page our readers turn to when opening the magazine, we felt it important that greater detail was paid to the overall design and implementation. We elected to reinforce the use of our three-column grid utilized throughout the magazine by displaying all three of our features (or the occasional department) equally in this space. Graphics are encouraged to pop out of the three strong verticals occupying the page. This gives our TOC an air of fun and whimsy while still showing a balance of positive and negative space. As you can see, for the first issue of our redesign we had a bevy of strong photography and illustration to choose from and it's great to showcase it successfully.

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Description

Publication name:
ABA Journal

Company:
American Bar Association

Winner Status

Regional Gold Award