Daily Maverick
Editorial design of DM168, Daily Maverick's weekly print newspaper.
DM168 has a small editorial team, all working remotely. My responsibilities included conceptualising articles, image searching and manipulating, layout and work flow management.
One challenge on a weekly newspaper is the fast-paced environment. Cover stories mostly land the night before printing, or on the same day. Above and following are some of the covers I was responsible for with Kassie Naidoo, art director.
My brief was to distinguish the mining suplement from the main paper while keeping its identity. I used graphic devices and color to do this and pull it together.
Mining supplement 2023
This annual supplement is a collaboration between the Daily Maverick newsroom and it's readers. The curated list across 15 categories received responses of almost 28 000 readers within a week. I was responsible for the look and feel, layout and project management.
DM168 is the only weekly newspaper that has shown a year-on-year increase in circulation, a significant achievement in an industry of steady decline.
Concepts and design by Karmen van Rensburg
DM168 Editor: Heather Robertson. Art Director: Kassie Naidoo