November 05, 2013
Award-winning newspaper laid out by College designer
The front page of the award-winning News Gazette, designed by Lake Forest designer Emma Therieau.
Designer Emma Therieau, whose creative work can be found on posters and other print materials for Lake Forest College, created The Gazette for the Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society. The 1916 mock newspaper won an Award of Superior Achievement from the Illinois Association of Museums in October.
The mock newspaper promoted a program about a 1916 murder trial and included all the news of that year. The awards committee noted the ambitious undertaking, calling the promotional piece a “model for the museum profession.”
“The Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society gave me copies of original newspapers to work from,” explained Therieau, who spent several hours adapting the look of the decades-old newspaper. “I found a font that nearly matched and then just followed the style of the original examples.
Extensive research on the year 1916 was done using the collections of the Historical Society and Lake Forest College. Among the items researched were the City Council minutes, College yearbooks and the Lake Forest College newspaper, The Stentor.
“I had a lot of fun with this project,” Therieau said.
The mock newspaper was modeled after the Lake Forester newspaper.