This package was covering two stories: a newly released movie and a murder itself. Ransom letters contrasting with photos of a beautiful woman tells the reader even before reading the headline this is a very dark story.
This package was dedicated to a significant Jewish community in the area. Knowing how it feels to be far away from home, I've asked a friend from Israel to scan some everyday objects for this package: money, transit tickets, newspapers, labels which I included in the story, so those who would like to come back but they can't can feel being closer to home.
My illustration (left) and a very last minute illustration/layout (right).
The package on the right ("Time for Christians's faith to take hold") was about a church damaged by a hurricane. We didn't have any photo of the church, though, and the only picture I had was also not exactly "hurraganish", so I decided to play with typography and I used a Chesire's cat principle: to show a cat's smile without a cat and I hinted the topic by putting a pull-out quote inside a hurricane icon made from an enlarged quotation mark.
For this package I was blessed with a really lousy art (the author took pictures himself with, I don't know, a flip phone? It was kinda hi-tech at the time), so they couldn't play any significant role in my design. I decided to go with typography again and made a design which plays with "Made in..." label. The label was also attached to the section's header (since the paper was obviously made in U.S.A.), as well as to items from other stories, like the (made in China) product reviewed in the story below.
