Former Asst. Design Editor Munier Salem details the conversion of The Sun'sss weekend magazine from its small page size back to a tabloid format. Some new looks are explained along with comparisons to older looks.

The debate of the century: where do I want to spend my nights? Options: in bed, with a tall, dark, and handsome half black-half white masterpiece of a man; at the informative, and equally attractive (but not jump-into-bed-with) Cornell Daily Sun; at MVR in the FSAD studio with my artsy (but, lets face it, I won’t be getting laid) friends, Leah and John; or in bed, alone.

Fact. Giraffes don’t have voice boxes. Nastia Luikin is super nice. Bulletproof vests are made out of a material called Kevlar. There are three basic types of life insurance; term, whole-life, and universal. Light color primaries are subtractive. Arnold Schwarzenegger is my governor. Fact. CMYK is cyan, magenta, yellow, and… black?

Last week’s post looked at graphics that appear in the Sun’s new science section, so I figured this week I’d discuss the pages themselves.

Okay, so it turns out I wear quite a few hats down at the Sun. Most people happen to know me for the column I write in the opinion section (sex, politics and Palestine… basically). The majority of my time actually working on the paper however is spent working for the design department. And then there’s a little project I started last semester that goes by the name of “The Science Section.”

This is Part II in a series about the design of the new (ish) weekend magazine, Daze. Issue two is on stands around Ithaca today! Munier Salem '10 continues a design blow-by-blow of the first issue.

For several years The Sun has been mixing things up with different weekend magazines: “Red Letter Daze” and “Eclipse”. Today, tightening budgets and a loss of distinction between the two has led to a merger of the magazines, which Asst. Design Editor Munier Salem '10 had the pleasure of re-designing just before the start of the semester. This blog post is the first of a two-part blow-by-blow of the new issue.

In honor of New Years quizzes everywhere, and the publications that shaped this year in the news, CMYK presents the T-time quiz.

If any of you thought the color looked a little odd on the front and back pages of the last paper, you were correct. John C. Schroeder '74, the Sun's production manager and all around press guru narrates explanations for the oddities in the paper caused by a mistake made by The Sun's printing press partners, The Leder.

With the level of excitement on campus it's clear: this news is huge. To follow suit, the front page must be huge.