Project Overview
Sans Merci is an annual arts and literary magazine by and for Shepherd University students.
My role as the magazines’ designer, was to work closely with the student-editors to design and layout the magazine, design graphics for multiple social media engagement campaigns, and create visuals for other printed collateral such as t-shirts and stickers.
Sans Merci is an annual arts and literary magazine by and for Shepherd University students.
My role as the magazines’ designer, was to work closely with the student-editors to design and layout the magazine, design graphics for multiple social media engagement campaigns, and create visuals for other printed collateral such as t-shirts and stickers.
Challenge
—To design and illustrate marketing materials that spark student interest and promote submissions.
—To layout 100+ pages of art and literature in ways that support each individual piece while creating an overall editorial beauty and cohesion.
—To create a magazine cover and spot illustrations for the interior of the magazine.
—To create designs for t-shirts and stickers for editors.
—To design and illustrate marketing materials that spark student interest and promote submissions.
—To layout 100+ pages of art and literature in ways that support each individual piece while creating an overall editorial beauty and cohesion.
—To create a magazine cover and spot illustrations for the interior of the magazine.
—To create designs for t-shirts and stickers for editors.
Audience
Shepherd University students and staff.
Prospective students.
Prospective students.
Solution
I pursued an airy minimalist layout style that was inspired by my favorite books of contemporary poetry. I used white space to create movement from page to page.
For the cover design, I drew on previous years' themes of embodiment, particularly distorting—playing with the relationship between bodies and the spaces embodied subjects inhabit. I used delicate line work, a limited, muted color palette, animate light and shadows to create a strong sense of disorientation, magic, and melancholia. Typographically, the title type is based on Fer Cozzi's typeface Sincopa, loosely traced and distorted to look sharper and disordered.
For the cover design, I drew on previous years' themes of embodiment, particularly distorting—playing with the relationship between bodies and the spaces embodied subjects inhabit. I used delicate line work, a limited, muted color palette, animate light and shadows to create a strong sense of disorientation, magic, and melancholia. Typographically, the title type is based on Fer Cozzi's typeface Sincopa, loosely traced and distorted to look sharper and disordered.
Software
InDesign, Photoshop, Lightroom
