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Bill Wambeke
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- Des Moines Design Studio
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- Des Moines
- State
- Iowa
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- U.S.
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- Designer, Manager
- About me
- I am a team leader in the USA Today Network Design Studio in charge of 8 designers. We build news and business pages for 15 newspapers spread across Wisconsin, Vermont, Montana, Nevada and Washington.
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- https://billwambeke.wixsite.com/mysite
- @unfiltereddad
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Thanks for the compliment, Bill! You do some great work as well.
Thanks for thinking of me Bill, but I just started a new job. Wouldn't look to good to start job hopping. Thanks though!
HI Bill!
It's not so much a new job--as just another job. They cut our pay at the Journal, so I went out and found a part time gig. Just between you and me I enjoy it much more than the daily paper. Looks like your still putting out great looking pages. What did you think of the Times-News redesign? I think it looks pretty nice.
Thanks for the compliment. Have a good thanksgivining.
Dan
Thanks, Bill!
Oh, West Virginia! Hopefully there will be more adventures to come while I'm still young!
Also, I loved the movie Fargo!
What makes it even more confusing is that all of our designers here took home a prize in the page design category. That seems very odd and a little suspect. But I am glad the Statesmen got locked out.
I meant to thank you too for that advice you gave me a few months ago about tips to make the pages look better. Believe it or not it helped and I am trying harder - but just a little harder.
Take it easy man.
Hey Bill,
Sorry it took me so long to reply to your question. I didn't enter any pages this year. I feel like I'm kind of in a rut here at the Journal. I feel like we have way too much print on the page, and to make matters worse we are relying more and more on "citizen journalists" that take crappy looking "citizen photographs"
It's depressing. How do you deal with design when they want to cram six stories on the front with nothing more than a few mugs and maybe a three column photo for art?
A part of me says that I should be able to make anything look nice, but more and more I find myself not caring and just throwing the shit on the page.
That's probably more than you wanted to know. Did you enter any pages this year?
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