James Lambert Design Portfolio

features design.

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• Third-Place Winner Feature Page Category, 2008 New England Associated Press Newspaper Executive Association awards. This page integrated the flag of the page into the couch design. I felt it was very successful in drawing the two stories, the page flag and the date, page number, etc. into one cohesive design.
• This is a page that featured the opening of a movie called "Head Trauma." I started the day without art for this story, and this page for that matter, so I manufactured this by rounding up a photo of this funny looking guy and inflicting a massive head trauma on him with the story.
• First-Place Winner Feature Page Category, 2006 New England Associated Press Newspaper Executive Association awards. This is one of my favorite pages that I have ever done. Photographer Vyto Starinskas shot a series of snowboarders outside of the recreation tent at a pro event. This was not at all what either of us expected to come of this project, but the result came out great. This is an example of how good photography can do the work for a designer. I knew Vyto handed me gold here, all I had to do was not mess it up.
• First-Place Winner Business Page Design Category, 2006 New England Associated Press Newspaper Executive Association awards. I put this page together on the fly (ha ha) late on a Friday afternoon. I never envisioned it as a page that would end up in my portfolio or win an award, but it was a bit of a pleasant surprise. Business editor and writer Bruce Edwards jumped out of a plane to make this page happen. Thanks, Bruce.
• Second-Place Winner Feature Page Category, 2008 New England Associated Press Newspaper Executive Association awards. This was a feature for our page geared toward younger readers. This story was about how geography lessons were nearly nonexistent in the classroom today. I found a nice-looking map on a stock service and shaped Africa into a question mark (and made Australia the dot on the question mark.)
• This page had a story about bad cell phone manners and the excessive use of cell phones in public. It was also on our page geared toward young people. It was not a preachy or scolding story, it was more of a fun look at how society is changing. It took shots at different types of cell phone users, for example the "loud talker." It starts with the headline Cell Phones gone wild," which then spirals around the girl and gives the appearance that it is swirling around her, perhaps like the cell phone signals themselves.
• This was s feature on spring centerpieces. I picked up three photos of different flowers and arranged them around the story. To ty and hide the fact that they are the same flowers repeated over and over, I rotated the flowers each time I duplicated it to give a reader a different view of it.
• A feature on the ins and outs of plant buying and no art. What to do? I'd had an idea like this on the backburner for quite a long time and finally found a chance to use it.
• This page illustrates the daily flood of information people receive.
• Second-Place Winner Feature Page Category, 2009 New England Associated Press Newspaper Executive Association awards. This was a preview for the Quechee Balloon Festival. In this case the inViTe logo was made of clouds.
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