The objective of this assignment was to create a 4-page custom newsletter regarding any topic the student wanted, with the final product being created within Adobe InDesign. Every page was required to have text and photos, live page numbers, a side bar, captions on photos, citations, a header and a footer, both present globally.
For the assignment, I ended up choosing to make a newsletter for DELTARUNE by indie developer “Toby Fox”. To start, I had made quick sketches to get some ideas on the ground. Initially I had thought there to be only two pages, hence why each row only has two pages. The second page only has further detailed concepts for a footer.
As nice as these concepts were, I never actually ended up using them. Instead, I ended up recreating whole digital concepts within my personal art program, FireAlpaca. For these storyboards, I took very heavy inspiration from the official UTDR newsletters by Toby Fox himself. The black backgrounds with white text fit the game extremely well, and it’d feel wrong not to use the typeface associated with the game inside its own Newsletter. None of the presumed “content” is lifted from any of the actual newsletters, though. All of the sprites and artwork featured within both the storyboard and the finalized project were created by the Deltarune team.
With the storyboards complete, and in such detail, all it took was translating all of the details straight into InDesign.
Above are the final versions of each of the pages of the newsletter. All of the body copy is “Lorem ipsum” text, as it wasn’t the main focus of the assignment, and none was provided.
The most challenging part of this entire assignment was getting a layout I thought would work the best with the topic. With Deltarune being a game composed of sprite-work and low-res graphics, it was very difficult to imagine some sort of corporate and clean design you might expect any other newsletter might have. While it didn’t impede my progress majorly, it was definitely something to think about when putting everything together.
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