Design
I began designing my sophomore year and quickly fell in love. Self-taught on Adobe InDesign, my goal has always been to build pages that are both organized and graphically interesting.
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My senior year as editor-in-chief, I have taken on the role of designing the majority of The Herald. I have built many templates and embedded a structured system to make the pages exciting yet consistent.
Covers
I styled and designed both covers for The Herald during the first semester of my senior year. I wanted them to draw students in through engaging photos with bold colors.
Game On!
I designed the sports section of this issue of The Herald to have big cutouts of players, large photos and I used text wrap. Each story was brief, so I thought it was necessary to complement them with captivating photos and graphics.
Side Out
When designing this feature, I thought a pair of crutches forming a big X would be both graphically interesting, but also tie into the story. I made sure to have a big headline and good pull quotes. I was able to use pictures of all of the people I included in my story and made sure they were large and visible.
Is Our Education too Focused on College Prep?
For this op-ed, I was able to find a good photo to make big and one that I could embed in the story as well.
Your Vote Is Your Voice
For this feature, I wanted the design to really stand out. It took me a lot of drafting and trial and error to come to this idea: having a huge, blown-up "I Voted" sticker that would take up a whole page. This really tied into what my story was about and also tied in with the cover of the issue. For the second spread, I repeated some of the images I used on the cover but in a fresh way. For the two students I talked to, I put their pictures in circles to tie in with the shape of the voting stickers and buttons.
A Passion for Choir/Senior's Dedication Shines
I wanted to design these two profiles so they had big pictures, but had slightly different layouts to make the spread more separated while still keeping continuity.
Guts, Grit, and Glory
For this sports feature, I had a dominant photo and an action shot build the spread. I also made a sidebar that I colored blue to add a pop of color to the page.
Warrior Strong
When designing this page, it took me a lot of trials to get it organized and for it all to fit on two pages. Working with a lot of text and two great photos, it was one of the most difficult spreads I've built. In the end, I was able to produce these two spreads that included pull quotes, side bars, large pictures, and I was even able to include a quote collection.
She. Served.
In order to make this spread interesting, I took up a whole page with an action shot. In addition, I had a big, bold headline and another photo to tie the other page all together.
Dude, What's in Your Car?
This spread was my first graphic-heavy design. While this page doesn't have a lot of writing, I was able to fill it up with pictures including an illustration of a car.
'He Just Loved Being Here'
The story I wrote wasn't super long, so I was able to have a big photo, side bars, and fill the space with pull quotes/incindiary photos.
Radio On!
This was the page that really got me into design. I used illustrations in order to make the spread visually interesting, colorful, and to tie in with what the page was about.
