I wanted something for my kids to do for hours every month that is fun, education, and most importantly, screen free.
I built a custom newspaper builder along with it to help me design it. I'm not a designer so tools like phoshop don't ocme easy. This allows me to have different layouts for pages and create different re-usable elements.
- what paper size are you going to use? Like full broadsheet size or zine size?
- and how many pages of content do you think you'll have, given that size?
- black and white, or color?
- where will you get all your content? Designing puzzles, experiments etc seems like it would take a long time
- do you recommend any printeries?
- anywhere we can follow your progress? I'd be super excited to see a first mockup
FWIW, as a web guy, I'm leaning towards designing my content in HTML + CSS and exporting to PDF at a certain page size, probably using playwright.
It will be in color. Broadsheet (350mmx500mm). 12 pages. Color.
I've been designing puzzles, etc.. myself. Using claude and chatgpt to brainstorm fun games/expirements/etc...
I don't have the site up yet. Waiting to get the first batch so I have some IRL images to add to the site.
I wish there were 1,000s more of those!
I don't have payment setup yet. Just a waitlist :)