STORIES
Colorado Legislators Advocate For Gun Control Policy
This article was based in a five page In-Depth that incorperated two other staff member's individual stories about gun violence and it's impact on Creek. Spurred by a recent upswing in mass shootings, I researched and interviewed about Colorado gun control measures, and dug up multiple bills that would be working to introduce stricter control on assault weapons and purchasing.
I tied all of these measures and their histories into an article that discusses specific hearings and why lawmakers were intoroducing these bills, with a goal of conveying how gun violence impacted Colorado legislative policy.
Design for this page was based in trying to make it stand out, using bold colors like the grey background and the black sidebar. While I wanted to make it stand out, I also wanted tp make the aritcle blend with the rest of the package, so I continued the use of the black bar in the headline and the black infographic.
In-Depth - Volume 8, Issue 4 - May 2023
Girls' Soccer Looks To Championship
This article incorperated mutltiple different photos from different points and games during the girls' soccer season for a print issure - making it different than anything I'd done before. For this piece, I attended six games, working to take different photos during each one to make sure I captured important moments from throughout the season.
Alongside these photos, I talked to players about their season, about senior night, about tough losses or big wins, and about their hopes for the upcoming championship. I combined all of these different pieces into one article to give an overview of the entire season.
With this design, I wanted to incorperate mutilple different photos that depicted different things, so I had to work captions and regular text around them in a way that would guide the eye through the page, not confuse it.
Sports - Volume 8, Issue 4 - May 2023
It Was Never About Protecting Kids
During the last few years, Republicans have adopted a policy that defends harsh and cruel anti-trans and anti-human rights legislature by claiming that it 'protects kids.' In this staff editorial, it was my job to debunk that theory and explain how none of the recent legislation being passed by Republicans is actually helping children or adults.
A recent upswing in legislation that prevents trans children from being able to recive gender affriming healthcare or play in school sports is not protecting children, and neither was Republican legislature tearing down child labor protection laws. I heavily researched both of these topics over the course of a month, and aimed to disprove the notion of Republicans 'Protecting Children.'
Designing this page, I wanted to inclide a large inforgraphic that would adequatley display the infromation I was trying to discuss. I mapped out the number of anti-trans bills introduced in each state, and combined it into a map that showed the hotspots and low levels accross the country.
Staff Editorial - Volume 8, Issue 4 - May 2023
DESIGN
'90s Throwback
For this page, my main goal was to be able to incorperate a big, bold, design with five paragraphs of text and a playlist. I designed a playlist that incorperated the music discussed in the article, and recolored a Spotify scane code to match the design. I drew the background for the headline as well as the words, which included an intricate system of overlapping lines.
While our Katya Roudakov made the lines in the corner and the subhead color boxes, I made the little shape doodles that I scsttered around the page. I also cut out photos of my boombox and a spare casette tape, thinking that adding those to the page would continue the theme of the '90s.
I made the little dots coming off the background of the headline box in an effort to make it look like a comic book, doing the same with the cornered edges of the textbox.
A&E - Volume 8, Issue 1 - November 2022
Creek Champions
This spread was all about trying to incorperate multiple photos about different things with enough room to add captions, credits, lines, a headline, and a brief introduction.
I focused on putting in the statement photo first, which was one of my swimteam photos - the one in the center. I wanted to highlight this photo because it provided the most emotional action shot on the page, so I centered it and balanced the rest of the photos around it.
I layered all of the other photos around it, making sure I had enough room for cations around them, and included their blurds with directions like left, right, above, and below to make sure the reader could understand which caption was assosciated with which photo.
Next, I continued a standard theme throughout the magazine by incorperating a line above some captions that were underneath others. I also placed this line over the headline to ensure it was incorperated throughout.
Back Cover - Volume 8, Issue 3 - March 2023
Spring Sports Snapshots
This is by far my favorite page that I've ever designed. It began when I saw a photo of a Pacemaker winning magazine who had done something simmilar, but I transformed it by turning it into a collage of every spring sport.
I attended most of these games, with additional contributions from Peter and Carly Philpott. Scheduling which games to be at and when took three months, but it was worth it in the end.
To be able to incorperate every sport, I had to keep captions short and concise, as well as include a directional label like left, right, above and below, as well as only inluding the bare minimum like the player's name, which game it was, against what school, the score, and the date.
I relied heavily on a whiteboard planning system where I could move the photos around easily, and then I set it up on InDesign and added photos in one by one.
Back Cover - Volume 8, Issue 4 - May 2023