Sarah Franquet
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Palm Beach Post

By now the Spadia press technique is commonplace in the Sunday Comics and TV Week publications that are printed off-site.

However, it rarely had been attempted inside Cox production buildings until the Post succeeded with it using a design by Sarah Franquet. It was her unlikely, appealing section front about devotees of the work of Edgar Allen Poe.

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The challenge? To line up the half-page image with the full page underneath. It was a success as the Post achieved correct registration; the two art images merged.

That a production staff led by Bob Balfe Jr. was willing to try it for a Franquet design is a measure of the respect she commands. She's won Best of Cox page design for the past three years in a row.

"That split Accent front, that was really something to work on," Franquet recalled. "I know I walked back there a lot [to production]. They were great about it. When we proposed it they said 'Yes, we can do that!'

"Most of it was done in Photoshop and then I put it on a DTI document. I sent them a full page and then they got half a layout for the left part. There was some back and forth with it, then it lined up. It took a lot of rapport and communication."

Another demanding section by Franquet in 2000 was the work-intensive "37 Days that Changed History," reprising the Post's coverage of the presidential election crisis in Palm Beach County.

Franquet is a native of Milledgeville, Ga., and graduated from Georgia Southern College. She has been a reporter, news editor, copy and layout editor, lifestyle editor and multi-talented designer for papers in Georgia, North Carolina and Florida.

Husband Pete is a flight attendant with United Airlines.