Print Design
I only learned design concepts and InDesign skills recently, but I've learned to love it! Click each picture for the link to the digital issue spread. Click the menu above to see web design.
This was my first design for the publication and I was very interested in how to incorporate the artwork of students at the school. I made cut-outs of different pieces of art and tried to place them around the text to draw attention to the art. I also added the colors of the text, pink and blue, based on recurrent colors I saw throughout the work. I really wanted to let the art speak for itself so I chose a white background. My favorite part is my arrangement of the hummingbird’s beak to go through the line in the “H”.
I designed this "behind the post" feature to highlight our Instagram in our print issue. I chose the color to make the page contrast with the warm tones of the political reds that were featured in the page next to it. Additionally, we incorporated the same red and blue gradient on the word Instagram to tie this into the cover story. We tried to make this ad-style page clean and representative of the actual Instagram reel.
In the same issue, I designed promotion for the Student News Source app, incorporating the issue's gradient and screenshots from the app to tie it in to the student body by showcasing the ability to follow friends on the app.
This photo gallery originally designed by a design staffer, who used more photos of the performance. This created chunks of white space and text overlap. My co-EIC (an amazing designer) also redesigned this, but didn't want to get rid of certain photos to showcase all of the photographers' great work, which still made the photos too small. I eventually redesigned it by making it simpler, with 4 main photos on the spread, allowing them to be bigger and highlighted, and the cutout in the center, pulling the reader into the page.
I spent a lot of time giving the designer new ideas for this spread and redesigning it. Previously, the data was only represented with simple bar graphs, but I encouraged him to use the stacked soda cans, mini symbols, and different energy drinks as the data in order to represent it in an engaging way. I also had to change text colors to make them slightly more visible while still aligning with the designers dark vision for the spread. Additionally, we had errors with the actual representation and aligning the graphics, so I spent time redesigning those portions.
This was another story that I had to change the design for. Originally, there were photos for each subsection and they were all the same size. I decided to delete the least engaging photos and create a hierarchy by making the best photo the biggest. I was not the person who created the timeline, but I planned its creation and changed the spacing and color of the timeline to fit on the page and engage the viewer.
This year, we wanted to change our design style to encompass the "funky" but professional nature of an art school's publication. To do this, over the summer, I searched through numerous magazines, websites and advertisements to aid the design editor with creating the style guide. Finding our masthead font was particularly intriguing and challenging, but I loved the change we made. The final typeface we decided on is on the right.
I made this design pre draft template slideshow to encourage pulling design elements from direct inspiration and to encourage better data representation.