Freestyle Daily News: A Senior Humor or Satire Art Project by Kevin Chan (2014)

The Freestyle Daily newspaper relies heavily on satire and sarcasm to put a humorous spin on pressing real world issues like Yo-Mama jokes and Vietnamese restaurant menus (Just kidding). The Freestyle Daily was inspired by The Onion: America's Finest News Source, however, features more school appropriate stories and was written to appeal to a wider audience. Several of the stories from the headlines are based on ongoing controversies like raising the minimum wage and college acceptance rates, but with a rewritten to seem like good news. All aspects of the Freestyle Daily were thought out carefully, like the weather forecast in the top right with a ''modest weather advisory in effect'' or the intentionally misspelled ''Appertizers'' in the article about spelling and grammar errors. With clever writing, a heavily photoshopped main image, and several graphics sprinkled into the mix, the Freestyle Daily was designed to deliver.

Creating the Freestyle was half English and half Design, at least for me. Creating headlines and writing the articles took just as long as designing the actual newspaper, which was made using Adobe Illustrator for the layout and graphics, and Adobe Photoshop for the main image. I used Illustrator because of its advanced typography editing capabilities, as well as vector-based graphics (rather than pixels), which comes in handy when designing a piece that is nearly entirely text and, you guessed it, graphics. The photo which accompanies the main headline was modified in photoshop, and just like the headline, was twisted 180 degrees from . The original photo showed the protesters demanding a $15 minimum wage in front of a real Taco Bell, but after I was finished with it, they would ''gladly volunteer'' because they ''love this job'' at ''Mediocre Mexican.'' Photoshopping over the original signs was easy since all the signs were red, but coming up with new ones was just as hard as writing the article headlines.