spokesman-review: - Portfolio images - NewsPageDesigner2024-03-28T13:17:12Zhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/feed/tag/spokesman-review%3ATHE PROBLEM WITH NOISEhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/the-problem-with-noise2019-07-23T01:36:29.000Z2019-07-23T01:36:29.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822233273?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>I was asked to put this together to run with a story about how local engineers from Washington State University’s hydraulics lab had helped develop a system that dampens the damaging sound waves created by a Saturn V launch. The diagram up top is recreated from their materials; I found the photo below showing a complimentary water system being tested on the pad.</p><p>JULY 20, 2019</p></div>MOON SHOTShttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/moon-shots-12019-07-23T01:36:29.000Z2019-07-23T01:36:29.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822235671?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>We ended our Apollo 11 anniversary coverage with yet another rerun — This one is a revise of a page I did five years ago in California on the backstory about some of the famous photos you’ve seen from the first moon landing mission. The two slices down page — on the landing site and the two scientific devices left on the moon — are newer.</p><p>JULY 20, 2019</p></div>THE CIRCLE OF LIFEhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/the-circle-of-life2019-07-23T01:33:34.000Z2019-07-23T01:33:34.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822217454?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>For the opening of the new “Lion King” movie, I wanted to do something that focused on the old version vs. the new. I found the two Simba images, but I didn’t think they could lead the page.</p><p>JULY 19, 2019</p></div>PLAYING THE PONIEShttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/playing-the-ponies2019-07-23T01:33:34.000Z2019-07-23T01:33:34.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822215287?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>It’s the 110th birthday of the Looff Carrousel, at Riverview Park in Spokane. We gave some nice facts about the animals on the ride, the history of the ride and where it’s been installed. Looff is the guy who built the first carousel for Coney Island, so this one is extra-special. The horses are all hand-carved and lovingly restored. This page was easy to pull together, thanks to the city parks and rec folks, who have documented all this so carefully on their web site.</p><p>JULY 18, 2019</p></div>13 FUN FACTS FOR YOUR 4THhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/13-fun-facts-for-your-4th2019-07-23T01:33:33.000Z2019-07-23T01:33:33.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822243488?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Another Further Review page that was a redo. In fact, this is the third time I’ve done this page. Each time, I have to rework it extensively for fitting purposes and for updated data. The data for one of the segments, in fact, had gone missing, which sent me in search of a new source.</p><p>JULY 4, 2019</p></div>LET SUMMER COOKOUTS SIZZLE, NOT SPOILhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/let-summer-cookouts-sizzle-not-spoil2019-07-23T01:33:33.000Z2019-07-23T01:33:33.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822241873?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Here’s another one of those pages where I was given a nice illustration by Molly Quinn. When that happens, I try to accentuate the illo as best I can and try not to step on it. In this case, the illustration was vertical, so I stacked the two columns down the right side and didn’t even try to find another art element for the page. Molly does great work.</p><p>JULY 4, 2019</p></div>A TICKET TO THE MOONhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/a-ticket-to-the-moon2019-07-23T01:33:33.000Z2019-07-23T01:33:33.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822213473?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>I decided to do TWO Further Review pages to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 — one on the date it was launched and one on the date it landed. I had lots of material to work with — I’ve done this topic in the past and also I’ve been doing a ton of Apollo anniversary graphics for the Houston Chronicle. For this one, I used an old drawing of the Saturn V I did years ago, a large segment on why NASA used this somewhat convoluted way of getting to the moon — from a piece I did for the Chronicle back in March — and then added a bit at the bottom left about NASA “software wizard” Margaret Hamilton.</p><p>JULY 16, 2019</p></div>HAIR OF THE DOGGhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/hair-of-the-dogg2019-07-23T01:33:33.000Z2019-07-23T01:33:33.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822211061?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Snoop Dogg in Spokane, and once again, I disliked the rather static art I had to choose from. Luckily, I found this one bu the Associated Press.</p><p>JULY 12, 2019</p></div>AN OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD NEWSPAPERhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/an-out-of-this-world-newspaper2019-07-23T01:33:33.000Z2019-07-23T01:33:33.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822247879?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Now, this one was strange. Astronaut Anne McClain — who’s originally from the area — returned from several months aboard the International Space Station. She told our reporter that she received our e-edition on her laptop every day in orbit. So design director Chris Soprych asked me to figure out: How much would it have cost to send her a physical newspaper every day? The answer, if you put it in fairly simple terms anyone could understand, was enough to fill up a Further Review page. So I did. The image I had of the turret in front of the Spokesman-Review building was pretty crappy, so Jesse Tinsley shot a new one and Chris used it to replace the one in my original illustration.</p><p>JULY 7, 2019</p></div>WEB-FRIENDLYhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/web-friendly2019-07-23T01:33:33.000Z2019-07-23T01:33:33.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822246057?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>I would much rather have led this page about the new Spider-Man movie with a photo of Spidey in his traditional blue-and-red costume. I didn’t like the other choices that were available to me. The size and dimensions of this photo were perfect, however. So I went with it and reworked my idea for the artwork in the background. If you’re going to go dark, go REALLY dark.</p><p>JULY 5, 2019</p></div>ONE NIGHT AT THE STONEWALL INNhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/one-night-at-the-stonewall-inn2019-07-23T01:31:45.000Z2019-07-23T01:31:45.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822242253?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>I was asked to do this anniversary, too, as a tie-in with pride month. I thought I had some nice photos of the raid and resulting riot, but when I looked closer, I realized that while AP had tagged them as being with the Stonewall Riot anniversary, they actually weren’t. This sent me scrounging. This came out rather nicely, though.</p><p>JUNE 28, 2019</p></div>THE LONGEST DAYhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/the-longest-day2019-07-23T01:29:42.000Z2019-07-23T01:29:42.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822233081?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Here’s yet another Further Review page based on an idea I’ve done time and time again: A chart showing the amount of daylight vs. night, every day of the year. Little pullouts on the side show the earliest sunrise, latest sunrise, earliest and latest sunsets and so on. This is the third time I’ve done this same chart — in different cities. So the data is all different, of course.</p><p>JUNE 21, 2019</p></div>BURSTING WITH FUNhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/bursting-with-fun2019-07-23T01:29:42.000Z2019-07-23T01:29:42.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822239253?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>How do you plug an upcoming fireworks show? By using a photo from the previous year’s show, of course. In this photo by Jesse Tinsley, I like how the colors of the firework burst is reflected in the river.</p><p>JUNE 28, 2019</p></div>THE WAR TO END ALL WARS … DIDN’Thttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/the-war-to-end-all-wars-didn-t2019-07-23T01:29:42.000Z2019-07-23T01:29:42.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822236888?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>I hadn’t planned to reuse yet another old Focus page from five years ago. But we had a reporter planning to write something about a local man who had been there when the Treaty of Versailles was signed, 100 years ago. This page dated from the 100th anniversary of the assassination of the Archduke. So consider this topic bookended. Last time, there was an ad across the bottom. This time: No ad, so I built a little graphic showing military dead and wounded and civilian dead from the major war powers.</p><p>JUNE 27, 2019</p></div>OUTSIDE THE (TOY) BOXhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/outside-the-toy-box2019-07-23T01:29:42.000Z2019-07-23T01:29:42.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822235065?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Disney didn’t send us crap to work with on this story. I had two whole high-resolution stills, and I didn’t think either was centerpiece quality. So I used the image from the movie poster. I had room for a secondary image, so I used the official handout photo and cropped in on Forky.</p><p>JUNE 21, 2019</p></div>SERIOUS SNOREShttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/serious-snores2019-07-23T01:29:42.000Z2019-07-23T01:29:42.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822230864?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Most of our Thursday health pages are fairly routine. This one features a nice illustration by Molly Quinn. I like having a Molly Quinn illustration in my portfolio, so I think I’ll post this one. Side note: That headline on that column at the lower left? Yeah, that’s about what you think it is.</p><p>JUNE 20, 2019</p></div>SKYFEST - BIRDWATCHER’S GUIDE PART THREEhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/skyfest-birdwatcher-s-guide-part-three2019-07-23T01:29:42.000Z2019-07-23T01:29:42.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822229063?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>The final of four “Birdwatcher’s guide” pages in the special section for the Skyfest air show at Fairchild Air Force Base.</p><p>JUNE 16, 2019</p></div>SKYFEST - BIRDWATCHER’S GUIDE PART TWOhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/skyfest-birdwatcher-s-guide-part-two2019-07-23T01:29:42.000Z2019-07-23T01:29:42.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822227452?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Additional degree of difficulty for the other two pages of the “Birdwatcher’s guide”: I had ads to work around. I ganged the four WWII-era birds here. For three of these photos, I was forced to rely on Shutterstock.</p><p>JUNE 16, 2019</p></div>SKYFEST - A BIRDWATCHER’S GUIDEhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/skyfest-a-birdwatcher-s-guide2019-07-23T01:29:42.000Z2019-07-23T01:29:42.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822224699?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Reporter Jim Camden had written a series of blurbs on some of the major aircraft that would be appearing at this year’s Skyfest air show at Fairchild Air Force Base. I suggested I could turn those blurbs into a multi-page, visual treatment. This four-page “Birdwatcher’s Guide” was kicked off with this color doubletruck. My goals were were a) Get the planes as large as possible, b) Don’t clutter the page too much, and then c) Use a strip along the bottom to compare sizes of the 16 planes in Jim’s story plus the F-15 Eagle that was featured in a separate story.</p><p>JUNE 16, 2019</p></div>FULL COURT PRESShttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/full-court-press2019-07-23T01:26:24.000Z2019-07-23T01:26:24.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822223455?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson and his office has filed 39 lawsuits against the federal government since Donald Trump took office. Some of those 39 are fairly routine cases. But some are fairly spectacular — for example, the infamous travel ban — that suit was led by Ferguson. The idea here was to show each suit, explain — as simply as I could — what it was about, which of the suits Washington led and the status of each. Ferguson’s office likes to brag about how it hasn’t lost a case yet. But several of the cases have been dismissed without a victory.</p><p>JUNE 12, 2019</p></div>SKYFEST - BIRDS OF PREYhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/skyfest-birds-of-prey2019-07-23T01:26:24.000Z2019-07-23T01:26:24.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822229081?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>We needed aviation-oriented copy for the 16-page Skyfest special section so I immediately thought of this page I did several years ago, showing various U.S. fighters from World War II and their production numbers.</p><p>JUNE 16, 2019</p></div>SKYFEST COVERhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/skyfest-cover2019-07-23T01:26:24.000Z2019-07-23T01:26:24.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822227656?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>I was asked to design the 16-page special section in advance of the annual Skyfest air show at Fairchild Air Force Base. As I made my first pass through the collection of photos, this one of a B-52 jumped out at me right away. This might be one of my favorite pages of the three months I’ve worked for the Spokesman-Review.</p><p>JUNE 16, 2019</p></div>PEDAL TO THE MEDALhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/pedal-to-the-medal2019-07-23T01:26:24.000Z2019-07-23T01:26:24.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822225666?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Our editor, Rob Curley, wrote about the metal band Judas Priest. The art choices were hideous, but I found this one at Shutterstock. There’s something interesting going on in the little refers down page with Emmy Thompson and a goat. But that’s pure coincidence.</p><p>JUNE 14, 2019</p></div>SUMMER SOUNDShttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/summer-sounds2019-07-23T01:26:24.000Z2019-07-23T01:26:24.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822221466?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>This one was my toughest Seven cover yet — instead of one event, our centerpiece was a roundup of various summer shows coming to the area. I dislike this kind of headline treatment — it was extremely trendy a few years ago — but with all these horizontal photos, it got me out of a jam.</p><p>JUNE 7, 2019</p></div>‘IF DIE WE MUST… ‘https://newspagedesigner.org/pages/if-die-we-must2019-07-23T01:26:24.000Z2019-07-23T01:26:24.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822219460?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>This is a re-do of a page I had done five years ago in California.</p><p>JUNE 6, 2019</p></div>WHEN THE WORLD CAME TO VISIThttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/when-the-world-came-to-visit2019-07-23T01:26:24.000Z2019-07-23T01:26:24.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822217065?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>Here’s another 45-years-ago page, but one that I really needed to do now: The time they held a world’s fair in Spokane. I went to the one in Knoxville in 1984, so I know what a big deal these can be. The meat of the page is a giant listing of fairs and expositions going back to 1851.</p><p>JUNE 5, 2019</p></div>MAN OF THE HOUSEhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/man-of-the-house2019-07-23T01:26:24.000Z2019-07-23T01:26:24.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822214876?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>It’s the 30th anniversary when Rep. Tom Foley — of Washington’s 5th Congressional District — was named Speaker of the House after the resignation of Jim Wright. Foley would serve for five fairly contentious years before becoming the first incumbent House speaker to be defeated in a re-election bid since 1862. I thought it would be fun to look at his margin of victory in each of his elections from 1964 through that last one in 1994.</p><p>JUNE 2, 2019</p></div>A STAND UP GUYhttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/a-stand-up-guy2019-07-23T01:22:29.000Z2019-07-23T01:22:29.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822195289?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>This week’s Seven front was on comedian and actor Joel McHale. My art choices were somewhat limited, but once I picked out this one, I knew I’d have to echo the denim in the Seven logo up top. Of further interest is Chris Kattan at the lower right. He’s going to make a great answer to a trivia question one day.</p><p>MAY 31, 2019</p></div>A HISTORY OF U.S. TARIFFShttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/a-history-of-u-s-tariffs2019-07-23T01:19:50.000Z2019-07-23T01:19:50.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822221698?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>President Trump’s talk of increasing tariffs is a huge turnaround from the politics of the past three-quarters or so of a century. This chart shows various tariff laws over the past two centuries.</p><p>MAY 23, 2019</p></div>OUR WAR CASUALTIEShttps://newspagedesigner.org/pages/our-war-casualties2019-07-23T01:19:50.000Z2019-07-23T01:19:50.000ZCharles Applehttps://newspagedesigner.org/members/CharlesApple<div><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/5822231300?profile=RESIZE_400x&width=400"></div><div><p>A giant U.S. flag on Memorial Day. Made of itty-bitty stars — and each star represents a local serviceperson who was a casualty in the various U.S. armed conflicts. The last time I did this graphic, I had Texas numbers. This time, I had to combine Washington and Idaho.</p><p>MAY 27, 2019</p></div>