Oh here we go again

The photographers lied. I just wanted to get that straight.
But this doesn’t mean the designers are going to come in and try to convince people we are the legs this newspaper stands on.
Everyone already knows that.
I suppose the first thing we need here is an introduction. This blog comes from the design desk, or the unconscious reason you pick up the paper in the mornings. We decide where headlines go, how large photos run and just how good the writer’s stories are going to look. We also spend our time passing judgment on designs of other newspapers, magazines, Web sites, advertisements and anything else we can judge.
Newspaper nights are full of stress, but there is nothing like being back with the people who really understand what you’re passionate about.
Although the night begins with the separate entities of the paper separated in their own cubicles and workspaces, it ends with everybody trickling into the production room to watch designers finalize their work, help copy editors write headlines and of course watch hours on end of “Accepted” and YouTube while we lovingly mock each other.
No single section is the backbone of this paper. We all put our hearts into the work we do, and nobody would make it through the night without the family of staff around to joke and stress with them.
All I know is I would never make it through the night waiting for the confirmation call from our printers at The State (which comes, based roughly on when we send, between the hours of midnight and 3 a.m.) without the company of my favorite editors and staffers.
And of course, the hours of video provided by the internet … I never realized before how thankful I was for dumb people with video cameras and too much free time.

-- Production
Megan Sinclair
Co-Design Director