I have been pretty often clean-bowled by the ways of layout designs in Gulf News. I'm sure many of the fellow bloggers/ friends in media / advertising / communications must have felt the same too! An example appears in today's Page 2 reproduced here.On first glance I got the topline spooky feelings that:
1) "The woman was stabbed repeatedly" while (or because of) "Appreciating Art"
2) The woman who was stabbed repeatedly and dumped by her husband... is seen here appreciating art with her husband
It is true that to a large extent news reporting / layout is about catching attention, making the report look "newsy" and this is what communication is all about.
However, I guess sometimes improper connection may take the communication to negative levels - eg. the report unknowingly connects the art exhibition to murder - Christie's style!!
And just for the record, this method has often been repeated - even on front-page main headlines!
Am I too critical? I'd love to know how the community feels about it... Sam? SD? Woke? ...
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ur right....its too retarded
You're right. I've posted on this kind of poor layout in the past too. They seem to simply focus on fitting things in, putting shapes together, without noticing the content
I think it's intentional; the art of stabbing is well known in martial arts and can be appreciated!
dredge: shouldn't that be marital arts?
:-)
Pretty bad, isn't it?
Maybe some quality control would help in avoiding such screw-ups.
But generally I think GN is far better compared to KT and the likes in terms of layout and design.
Oh it's utterly stupid. Always confuses me. Takes me a while to stop looking at the picture while trying to relate it to the headline and actually read the narrow column that elaborates on the headline.
6 Days and Emirates Toady do that too....Not sure why...it always confuses me!
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