Danielle Provencher
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Palm Beach Daily News

Danielle Provencher is Cox Newspapers' best page designer in the Community Division for the second year in a row. She imparts text and art onto pages in a manner that achieves a velvety, elegant feel — just right for the upscale Palm Beach readers.

For her, there's no formula to page design.

"I trust what I see," Provencher said. "I look for balance; if anything seems out of place, I rearrange things.

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"I don't want to clutter, I want to make it easy for people to look at the page and know what's going on. I like my pages to 'breathe,' and I keep that in mind."

Trends come and go but simple, inviting pages remain what's best for this two-time winner.

"I do what I need to do to make a good-looking page," Provencher said. "If I say I need to cut this or that out, I do. I don't look for special effects to try to add and I don't know all the tricks and secrets of DTI, I haven't explored them all. I stay pretty basic."

With recognition and cash awards, the Best of Cox Awards make employees feel better. It was certainly true with Provencher this year.

"The morning that I found out I had won again was the same morning I got home from the hospital," she said.

"I had spent six hours in the emergency room with a kidney stone. I came into work all bedraggled and tired and then my boss called me in and told me I'd won the Best of Cox. "I certainly wasn't high-fiving people like I did the first time I won, but I was still pretty excited."

Born in Quebec, she grew up in Fort Lauderdale and earned a degree in mass communications from the University of South Florida in Tampa in 1995. She has been a copy editor and page designer for the Daily News since 1999.