The last design I made for the magazine
My time at the crescent was spent wearing a lot of hats from photography to writing and design. Here are a few of the designs that I worked on during my time there. In the magazine design at the time there was a strict adherence to the branding style of the magazine although later it would change with different leadership styles. Something that in my observation holds true is that when someone first comes onto the team they work on the “bomb” page (our fun facts page). During my first semesters I researched, wrote and designed the “bomb” page. Aside from bomb, the majority of my design work involved placing pictures and arranging spreads, small stuff that was a bit tedious.
A spread I worked on. The magazine cover behind it is the issue this was published.
A lot of my design work was spent working on fun fact pages and spreads
You can see the technical aspects that were in focus. The strict brand styles one had to adhere to at the time did not allow a lot of space to be “creative” visually, but it did demand creativity in other fields. The exact amount of text that an author submits isn’t always consistent and is rarely exactly the amount of space needed to make it fit snuggly with the rest of the design. Making everything fit without there being a lot of excess room or not enough room was what we largely worked on in these designs.
The final design I did for the magazine was the cover page for the November issue. After that most of my time was spent representing the magazine in the student government association and regaining a budget for the magazine to operate on. At that point the most on hands work in the magazine I had was in either small graphics or a brief editing of someone’s article.