Believe it or not, before this page, I wasn't a Taylor Swift fan at all. In fact, The Tortured Poets Department is the album that got me into Taylor Swift in the first place. The aesthetic of this page is right up my alley, with the old vintage feel, and as a writer, I love a good fountain pen. Senior Superlatives is a notoriously painful page to produce because you are reliant on the photographers to get the photos of each individual on time, and you have to help direct the images yourself. I was terrified of the spacing for this page and how it was going to turn out, but in the end, I adored it so much that it quickly became one of my favorite pages I had ever created. It also solidified me as a Swifti, which is just the icing on the cake.

Budgeting constraints meant that only Editors-in-Chief were able to produce a colored page: the front. The front page was also an honor to produce because it is the first design anyone sees when they pick up the paper. It has to be eye-catching and intriguing. Knowing this, I created the page to the left, with my story being picked for the dominant. I knew I wanted to play with the henna design and colors for the image. Because of this, I asked Sandhana, the main character of the story, to bring one of her traditional dresses from home and bangels for a photoshoot. I decided on a close-up of the traditional clothing with the intricate details and bright colors being an eye-catching dominant and the American flag being a detail that encapsulated the theme of the story. Then, I played off of traditional henna designs and the lotus flower to bring some various colors and designs to the page, continuing that idea within the secondary coverage. I was so proud of this design, and the look on my friend Sandhana's face when she saw it was priceless.

This page was honestly one of the most frustrating for me to produce. My teacher and I decided to have a giant "Z" spanning the entire page as an ode to the them of the high school generation. The "Z", of course, was made up of references and icons of Generation Z, and I, in my infinite wisdom, decided to draw each and every element. When I say this took me days to accomplish, I'm not exaggerating. Tedious hours were spent determining what would fit in the space the best and would be the most recognizable. In the end, I was beyond proud of the final product. Fitting stories in a triangular shape is almost more irritating than drawing each individual icon of this page, and yet it came together. Real blood, sweat, and tears went into this design, and when a student opens the spread, I hope they are just as wowed by the dominant as I am.