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Banshee, whole no. 4, March 1944
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8 * * * Banshee Design for Fanmags One night last July a group of fans for together and one of many things talked about and kicked around was the lack of good design in fanmags; most of the fanmags look pertty much the same, as you know. A couple of the fellows tried to disprove this by pointing out and showing copies of outstanding issued of fanmags. After the writer had put in his two cents worth on how to fix the others up, Larry Shaw, who was present, said with a very wicked gleam in his eye, "Write up those remarks and I'll publish them." So here they are. The suggestions here are given with the thought of trying to make something that is good, better. Just as a designed tries to make a product and a package pleasing to the eye, as well as useful, these suggestions will make better looking and easier reading mags. A good design or layout -- call it what you will -- can, in most cases, make the job a little easier for that wild eyed man, the editor. Here we go, so get out your axes, boys, and sharpen them up! The design need not be elaborate; the simpler it is, the better. Every page doesn't have to look the same as every other one. Take each page or group of pages and make a design or layout for them. Don't just change the color of the aper but plan more white space on each page. Do it by putting double or triple spaces between the paragraphs. It's being done by a few editors; how about by more. Along with that, try putting wider margins on your pages. Make them big enough to a man's size hand. Some of the margins look as if
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8 * * * Banshee Design for Fanmags One night last July a group of fans for together and one of many things talked about and kicked around was the lack of good design in fanmags; most of the fanmags look pertty much the same, as you know. A couple of the fellows tried to disprove this by pointing out and showing copies of outstanding issued of fanmags. After the writer had put in his two cents worth on how to fix the others up, Larry Shaw, who was present, said with a very wicked gleam in his eye, "Write up those remarks and I'll publish them." So here they are. The suggestions here are given with the thought of trying to make something that is good, better. Just as a designed tries to make a product and a package pleasing to the eye, as well as useful, these suggestions will make better looking and easier reading mags. A good design or layout -- call it what you will -- can, in most cases, make the job a little easier for that wild eyed man, the editor. Here we go, so get out your axes, boys, and sharpen them up! The design need not be elaborate; the simpler it is, the better. Every page doesn't have to look the same as every other one. Take each page or group of pages and make a design or layout for them. Don't just change the color of the aper but plan more white space on each page. Do it by putting double or triple spaces between the paragraphs. It's being done by a few editors; how about by more. Along with that, try putting wider margins on your pages. Make them big enough to a man's size hand. Some of the margins look as if
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