At Visual Editors, Times-Picayune designer David Baker posts about his last few days.

I was the only designer on staff who did not evacuate ahead of Hurricane Katrina, and we sort of deputized a new staff of people to help produce pages, and I supervised things and continued to design several pages including the fronts.

These past few days have been ... overwhelming to say the least. I finally got sleep last night, and I am taking a few days off to separate myself from this for a while. The entire staff has been relocated an hour away, and designers are starting to return, so I feel like I can take a break.

One of my regrets is that we were not able to produce graphics during those first couple of chaotic days. But you work with what you've got -- and the deadlines you're given. We usually had about 3 hours to produce the pages.

Thursday's 15-page T-P can be found here.