I finally dug up a few more examples of the kind of front pages I design at the St. Petersburg Times. Click in the first link above, or click Design Portfolio in the link list on the left.

This batch includes a section front from May 11 with a peculiar centerpiece. A pair of lambs marauded around Tarpon Springs, and our photographer clicked a shot of the duo in the back of a police car. Fun art can inspire design. That page was produced in our old system. I designed it with pencil and pica pole on graph paper. After I finished, a “paste-up” assembled a full-sized puzzle of the page, which would get scanned onto a plate for the press.

It’s all done on computer - no paper, no pica pole. Any fronts after mid-June come from the new post-pagination era.

The latest batch of fronts also features a July 26 front about a fire. That one has dramatic art that I managed to put into an attractive package for the earliest deadline I work on.

Enjoy.