DESIGN
Although I enjoy each aspect journalism has to offer, designing has been my main passion lately. I have watched my former editors-in-chief and close friends Conner Davis and Tyler Merchant struggle and excel with designing, learning from their work in the 2016-2017 school year. I found out this past summer that I would need to step up in the 2017-2018 school year to design the yearbook. Although designing the yearbook is a full-time job, I enjoy designing mods, pages and spreads for the newsmagazine MVM publishes too.
In these design pages, you can find the trial-and-error process I had with our 2018 Aerie yearbook, my progression throughout the years of helping design our school's newsmagazine, the Eagle Eye, and various design projects from my first attempts at design, to the fun projects I've worked on.
NEWSMAGAZINE
Designing for the newsmagazine gives each person the capability to create. It typically depends on who writes which story, but on our staff we sometimes assign pages and design for specific content such as quick reads and features and sometimes leave it up to the author. I started designing for the newsmagazine my junior year, mainly doing small tasks, eventually working my way up to designing every page.
This is one of the first spreads I designed for the Eagle Eye, our newsmagazine.
I designed this page promoting past and future Wish Week's in our second issue of the Eagle Eye this year.
This is one of the spreads I designed in our third Eagle Eye issue this year.
This is a spread I designed for the Wish Week issue. I strayed away from the theme since the two articles weren't about past Wish Kids or Gabby, our 2018 Wish Kid.
This is one of the spreads I created about Gabby, Vista's 2018 Wish Kid. She had two full spreads dedicated to sharing her life with childhood cancer.
“Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.”