Up and Coming Vis Comm works

My next two assignments in class are to re-task the 2nd poster design I did into an animated .gif and then to a separate design of a 4 page, duplex printed newsletter. It will be printed on 11x17 paper, no bleed, grayscale, and is intended to be mainly informational. The content is about the 2006 proposal for a 4 lane highway from Kirksville to Macon. Some challenges I am anticipating are varying the heirarchy, scale, and use of black and white enough to make an interesting piece without falling into traditional pitfalls. I'm hoping a grid, limited font use, and experimentation with the subject matter will aid me in getting to a successful solution.