Publication Design
Since my freshman year of high school, I have been working on my high school's literary and art magazine, Menagerie. Being on the art staff, I work hands-on with Adobe InDesign to design the layout of the pages and decide what art goes with the literary pieces. By junior year I held the position as Art Editor. As COVID-19 took over and school went fully remote, I ended up working with 3 other people to complete the whole book. Together, we designed over 70 pages from home and worked together to produce the best book we could while in a whole new environment. As a senior, I am now the Editor-in-Chief of the magazine and I look forward to getting to lead a creative staff to put out a well rounded magazine. Additionally, I have been working on my school’s yearbook staff as a designer and the Senior Ad Editor. Throughout my junior and senior year, I have worked with 29 other students on the staff to create over 300 pages. Using all Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, I create mods (excerpts or sidebars that provide support for the main story with additional information and visuals) and design the layout of each page to highlight the students and faculty as well as the sports and clubs that are offered at our school. It has been such a unique learning opportunity and has taught me the importance of communication in a collaborative environment.
Tabulae
Yearbook
[2019-2020]
[2020-2021]
[Senior Ads 20-21]
Senior Ads Example
As a tribute to their Senior, parents can purchase a section of the book and send in photos/text to commemorate their hard work. I was in charge of organzing the design process of these ads and making sure that there was consistency throughout this section of the book. Each ad had a unique look and something special to showcase each student.
Menagerie
Literary & Art Magazine
[2018]
[2019]
[2020]
[2021]
As the Editor-in-Chief of the 2021 Menagerie, I built the magazine off the idea of the Bullet Journal. Menagerie’s 46th edition, entitled Fika, takes the Swedish coffee break to heart. Fika is a pause, a break, a time to relax from a busy day. We might never have imagined that the world itself would have taken such a pause and that the simple act of taking a break to enjoy time with friends and family over a coffee and a pastry would have been taken from us; this past year we have all learned first hand what it means to quite literally put things on hold. This year’s staff was intrigued by the concept of slowing down, by the pause, but also by the joy that comes from spending time with others. We were challenged by the concept of slowing down to appreciate all the details of life, as Fika invites us to do, and balancing all that needs to be done, the need to organize. Merging the idea of Fika with the bullet journal approach, an approach that invites journaling, checking in with thoughts, feelings, dreams, practical charting of to do lists, and artistic doodling, helps us become more mindful about our time, our energy and our resources.
