Assistant designer

Designing is a good job for anyone who is creative and wants to be a part of the vision and producion side of putting a newspaper together. It involves an eye for how a page should look and how best to make it appeal to the eye of the reader so that they will want to read the articles. Therefore designing is a very visual job and you work with the text as well as the images.

Design is a great part of the production process not only because it is fun and creative but also it gives you the oppotunity to see the whole process of putting a newspaper together. You get to be around the photographers and the writers so therefore designing gives you a chance to watch and learn about the other sections of production.

As an assistant designer you are involved in dummies and paste-up weekends which are both bi-weekly. The assistant designer is not only involved in designing the newspaper and learning how to design but he/she is also involved in helping to train all the newbies. Therefore it is a lot of hard work but every edition is something that one is proud of.