A collaborative project funded by the University of Michigan Arts Initiative.
As head of Graphic Design, I oversaw the planning, curation, and execution of this year’s publication. I also designed the front and back covers, two spreads, and posters for the call-for-art and our publication party. Because of the collaborative nature of the publication, my writing and a painting were also featured in a few spreads. This 2.5-month-long project resulted in 130 64-page A5 booklets with contributions from 30 students. Each Publication was sold for $12, with a total of 100 publications sold.
For this spread, I was working with a simple but beautiful drawing of a shell and a long-form poem. On the design team, we choose from a collection of works and try to pick artwork and writing that will complement each other in a two-page spread. Working with the shell drawing was difficult at first because of the amount of negative space, but it proved to be quite fun once I started working with it digitally. I ended up masking, multiplying, and cutting the image to create this scattered framing effect. For the background, I found an Unsplash image of a river/lake and just had fun playing with different effects and overlays, eventually inverting the black and white image. I am really happy with how this page turned out, especially in the way the dark and obscure coastal image complements the poem's content.
