As a volunteer marketing assistant with UISCE, I wear several hats, and reformatting research articles and papers is one part of my tasks here. Below you'll find the screenshots of the finished PDF and then the original document I worked from.

Since this document contained a lot of information that needed to be easily understood, I completely redesigned the layout. In this case, we were primarily concerned with:

Page count reduction (which did result in a loss of white-space I had in the original design.) The font size, kerning, and line spacing were minimized as much as possible while still remaining comfortable for the reader.

Choosing relevant and provocative images while remaining sensitive to the topic at hand

Creating a professional-looking PDF that can be sent to politicians and community leaders

To organize text, text highlights, and visuals in a way that makes the reader's eye naturally move to the next section of the document.

The project is currently being peer-reviewed by a peace studies scholar and will need further revisions once she is done.