PRESS
Graphic Design · Mardom-e No · Zanjan · 2017–2021

Newspaper Design
& Print Management

Daily layout and pre-press production for Mardom-e No — Zanjan's first private regional daily. Four years of 8-page issues across full-colour front pages, cultural spreads, interview features, and ad-heavy interior layouts using a consistent Persian typographic system.

Publication
Mardom-e No
Category
Newspaper Design
Duration
4 Years Daily
Format
8-page broadsheet
Mardom-e No newspaper — front page stack, issue 4645
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Project Overview

Mardom-e No is Zanjan province's first private regional daily — a broadsheet covering local politics, economics, culture, and social affairs for a general audience. The role covered the full editorial design and pre-press pipeline: daily layout from raw content to print-ready files, managing both full-colour issues and hybrid colour/B&W print workflows.

The work demanded speed, consistency, and editorial judgment — producing eight pages to press deadline every day, across four years and thousands of issues, while maintaining a coherent Persian typographic identity throughout.

4
Years of daily production
8
Pages per issue, every day
2
Print workflows — full colour & hybrid B&W
1st
Private regional daily in Zanjan province
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Scope of Work

The role was not a single design project but an ongoing production responsibility — daily layout across every section of the paper, from breaking news front pages to weekly cultural features, interviews, and classified-heavy inside pages.

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Front Page Layout
Daily full-colour broadsheet front pages: headline hierarchy, lead photography, above-the-fold news selection, and branded masthead treatment.
02
Cultural & Feature Spreads
Weekly cultural pages (فرهنگ و هنر): fiction, poetry, literary criticism, film reviews, and art coverage — designed with editorial illustration and photograph integration.
03
Interview & Profile Pages
Long-form interview features with full-page photography, pull quotes, and column grids — balancing density of text with visual breathing room.
04
Interior & Ad-Heavy Pages
Ad-integrated inside pages: managing editorial and commercial content within a consistent grid, maintaining readability across heavy classified and display ad loads.
05
Persian Typography System
Consistent typeface hierarchy across all sections — display, body, caption, and pull-quote styles held across four years of issues with editorial coherence.
06
Pre-press & Print Management
Full pre-press pipeline: colour correction, plate-ready file preparation, managing full-colour and hybrid B&W print runs to daily press deadlines.
"A newspaper is designed under conditions no other medium imposes — a hard deadline every day, for four years, without exception."
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Front Pages

The front page sets the editorial register for each issue — lead headline scale, photo selection, and story hierarchy all resolved simultaneously to deadline. Full-colour print on the front, structured around the Mardom-e No masthead.

Mardom-e No front page — issue 4645, full colour hanging poster Mardom-e No front page — issue 4668, colour broadsheet poster

↑ Front pages — issues 4645 and 4668 · full-colour broadsheet · Mardom-e No

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Cultural Spreads

The weekly culture and arts page (فرهنگ و هنر — Farhang va Honar) carried fiction, literary criticism, poetry, film reviews, and local arts coverage. The challenge was to give editorial depth to text-heavy content while integrating photography and illustration within a strict column grid.

Cultural page — issue 4712, fiction and arts Cultural page — issue 4776, fiction and arts Cultural page — issue 4781, fiction and arts

↑ Page 5 — Cultural spreads, issues 4712, 4776, 4781 · B&W print · Mardom-e No

Cultural page — issue 4786, fiction and arts Interior page — issue 4068, interview feature

↑ Cultural page issue 4786 + interview feature page issue 4068 · Mardom-e No

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Production Context

Regional daily newspaper production in Iran operates under specific constraints: right-to-left text flow, Arabic-script typeface systems, and print workflows that must balance full-colour front pages with lower-cost B&W interior sections. The pre-press process required CMYK-correct files for the cover and spot-colour or grayscale for interior pages — managed within the same daily production cycle.

Four years of daily production builds a different kind of design fluency than project-based work — the ability to solve layout problems quickly, hold a visual system under pressure, and make editorial decisions with incomplete information to an immovable deadline.

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