Design

One Day Coverage

The spring of my sophomore year and fall of my junior year, I did the design for our school's entry into the CSMA one day coverage challenge. As a newspaper staff, we wanted to tell the story of our whole school through experiences of just one day. With this in mind, I placed pictures of everyone all over the school along with where we talked to them. The next year, we chose to talk to nine people in the school as the date was November 9th. Both of these spreads won first-place awards at the annual Colorado One-Day Coverage competition.

Quizzes

I noticed that our readers went way up when we could make our publications interactive. When we put puzzles on the back of the paper, that was one of the first things people went to. The summer before my sophomore year, a handful of staff members and I decided to make an issue designed entirely to welcome new students to our school. New, confused faces wouldn't want to pick up a paper, so I created a quiz making it interactive, so students could virtually see which clubs to join.

Magazine

Going into my junior year, our editorial staff made the decision that our publication was going to switch design from a newspaper to a news magazine. This allowed us to have more artistic freedom in design choices and create a more compelling final product for our audience. One aspect I really love incorporating is pull quotes.

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