Sketching the Times

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An inside glimpse of how the the New York Times comes to press was encouraging to me. Tom Bodmer, the NYT's creative director, always makes hand-drawn pencil sketches of the front page to visualize the how that layout reflects the intended focus of the news.

“I kind of know what this stuff is going to look like,” he said. “I don’t need to see the page in any higher fidelity in order to visualize it. I just need to work out the relative position of elements and scale — and that’s much faster with a pencil.”