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OUR FA26 DESIGN LEADS
What is the Design department?
What is the Design department?
The Design Department shapes the visual identity of Berkeley B-Side across print and digital platforms. It is responsible for creating the graphics, layouts, and visual materials that define the publication’s style.
What do we do?
What do we do?
The department oversees the design of the print magazine, produces social media graphics, and creates layouts for editorial content. Design leads also support team members, offer feedback, and help maintain visual consistency across B-Side’s platforms and projects.
Why does design matter at Berkeley B-Side?
Why does design matter at Berkeley B-Side?
Design is essential to how Berkeley B-Side communicates its creative voice. It transforms reporting, photography, and promotion into a cohesive visual experience, helping the publication stand out while supporting its mission of multimedia storytelling.
What does design offer our members?
What does design offer our members?
Through Design, members gain experience in editorial design, layout, branding, and digital media production. The department gives creatives the opportunity to develop practical design skills while contributing directly to the magazine’s public image.
Who's Althea McNish (the gal who drew the top-banner pic)?
Who's Althea McNish (the gal who drew the top-banner pic)?
Althea McNish was a Trinidadian-born textile designer, artist, and teacher whose work brought bold color, rhythm, and botanical richness into postwar British design. She was one of the first designers of African-Caribbean descent to gain international recognition, and her prints transformed textiles, interiors, and fashion with a visual language shaped by her Caribbean perspective.
Her voice matters because she shows that design is not just about aesthetics — it is also about perspective, atmosphere, and cultural imagination. McNish’s work reminds us that visual identity can carry memory, place, and feeling, and that strong design can reshape how people experience everyday spaces and images. She is a meaningful figure for Design because her practice joined beauty, originality, and a distinctly personal visual world.
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