Afghan Notebook #11
Sunday, August 15th, 2010 by Stephanie McMillan
Archive for the 'Ted Rall' Category
Afghan Blog #4
Sunday, August 8th, 2010 by Stephanie McMillan
Matt and Steven leave tomorrow to join Ted in Dubai. Good luck and safe travels (and return) to all of you!
A note about the color: Since the scenery will be a lot of tans and light browns, I’ve chosen a contrasting pale green as the color for captions throughout the project (there won’t be much other green in the images to visually compete). On the maps, I’m using a color that is intended to evoke old parchment. I use a muted blue for boxed map info, again because there won’t be much blue on the maps to compete (since Afghanistan is a landlocked country), so the boxes will stand out.
Bright, saturated colors would seem both inappropriate for the seriousness of the content, and too intense and overwhelming for the line that Ted is using (thinner and looser than he usually uses in his editorial cartoons). So I’m using a palette that is soft and earthy.
-Stephanie
