Street Rod page design: How I come up with an idea

Street rods have return to York.

When I create a layout sometimes I have an idea already in mind. Sometimes the ideas come from other co-workers. This page design came from the latter.

Here are two concepts I came up with.

These two concepts were basic and clean, but boring.

Here is the final and can be seen in today's York Daily Record.

What is nice about this design is that it still is clean and organized, but the presentation is interesting. It also allows for a dominant piece of art to really stand out.