DESIGN
April 2025
This page came together over a very short period of time as most of the content did not come in until the last two days before the drop period. Though, I find the most memorable part of working on this page for me would be putting together the multimedia element of the map, which luckily pulls the page together in continuity when viewed side by side. Mixed Media may have had a short run as a section, but I am happy to have grown it's identity over the course of the year and hope that online extensions and interactive elements can continue to exist alongside Rubicon stories in the coming years.
March 2025
Similarly to the January issue, a page sketch was devised with photos of interviewees in their outfits taken and ready; however, this design unfortunately never came to light. The main elements of this page were designed in tandem with the cover, which made creating this page wildly difficult as the cover and the back were not only initially attached, but were created in a different version of InDesign and had several wrong copies left in the folder. Despite this, I was able to use the experience to work on the cover, an opportunity I was very grateful to be able to take on, and while the original design did not pan out, the movement of trends in the current age is a topic I am very passionate about and had a great time seeing this longer story come together.
February 2025
The colors for this page may be one of my favorites that I've designed... I especially love it when colors of images end up giving the page a new color palette, as is the case with the video essay image that adds a cream color which matches the red and black of the short form content story, which coincidentally shares main colors that I could design around! I also greatly enjoy the copy on the page, as I think looking at film and media through a digital lens is not spoken about often in main news sources and seems very relevant with teens.
January 2025
Admittedly, this was not the page I was expecting to be working on during this month, as plans fell through with the theme that the page was going to be about. However, I am still very happy with the turn we decided to take and have great memories of looking through old Rubicons to find good covers, recounting the years on the page (miscounting the number 50 seems to be a recurring theme in the mixed media section), and accidentally paying for a year-long subscription on my scanner app during this process.
November 2024
I was really excited to create this page as I've always wanted to cover something related to wildlife or science on the Rubicon. Unfortunately I got sick right before paste-ups, so much of the heavy lifting from my concept to the final design was done from other editors who I am so thankful for. To make up for the lack of interactivity in the Turkey Trot story, the urban turkey story showcases a photo gallery and an infographic on how to interact with turkeys in real life.
October 2024
Designing this section came initially as a great difficulty for several reasons. As with every Mixed Media issue, this theme concerns a very different subject, one that is primarily focused on information. To add interactive elements for the reader, we settled on an infographic detailing the electoral college voters inspired by the New York Times, and a video interviewing students on their thoughts of the system. I think the blue, yellow, red of the infographic ended up unintentionally pairing very well with the green background of the video screencap and gives a very text-heavy page some color. Additionally, the dichotomy of shapes between the round infographic which reflects the form of the electoral college in real life and the square borders of the video also work in the page's favor!
September 2024
As this was a very different topic compared to my previous page design on the junior art show, I hoped to create something unique and even more interactive. The section writers came back with really good interactive content and I drew inspiration from other magazines I grew up with that also had fun ways to engage with the content, such as having a quiz on the side! ... Though I somehow let a big typo slide in the results section. The formatting of the quiz went through several changes, but I think the colorfulness we settled on which was spot colored into the headlines turned out great.