The Daily
_On March 17, 2020, then Golden State Warrior's President, Rick Welts, sent a company-wide email titled "The First Daily". What began as a way to get information throughout the organization while working from home, turned into the sharing of deeply personal stories. When Welts decided to leave the organization in 2021, we compiled 33 of the most impactful stories from The Daily emails and bound them into a book.
Each entry included a title, date, introduction by Rick, and an employee-written story. The segments needed to feel cohesive and the layout needed to be consistent, but with enough variation that the reader wasn't blending the stories together after seeing the same layout page after page.
A solution was found in a consistent title page for each entry that would contain the date + title and would always appear on the left side of the book, embellished in elevated hues of Warriors blue and gold. Since these emails were centered around the date they were sent, it was more important to emphasize the date rather than the title. Many times there was significance in the date when these stories were presented, so it was essential those details would not be lost on the reader.
For the body copy, I chose a two column layout which occasionally was broken into one column whenever it was Rick's words. Since each entry varied in length, the pages appeared different to the eye from spread to spread since the columns were a range of heights.
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