Gatefolds (Inserts)

Above is the "Hot Spots" insert for the 2009 Ibis yearbook. This is one of two inserts for the book. The other is on football, which will be a later post. The insert is just like ones found in magazines, also known as a "centerfold".

The completion of this insert was a combined effort between the Managing Editor, Jacqui O'Donnell, who created all of the illustrations (icons, skyline, and map) and originally designed the first and last spreads, the Photo Editor, Leah Adams, who designed the entire insert (middle spread), and myself, who developed, supervised, revised, tweaked and finalized these pages.

Election spreads redesign

REDESIGN (AFTER):

BEFORE:

Upon request of my advisor, publishing representative and Editor-in-Chief, I was asked to redesign the Election spreads. They felt the spreads did not flow with the style of the rest of the book. Kara, the former Assistant Design Director, put a lot of time and effort into creating the pages she did, so the spreads essentially required a repackaging of content -- which evolved into an entirely different spread altogether.

As you can see, I redid the Obama illustration to ensure he was looking inward on the spread's content. Also, I decided to create the Obama illustration out of stars in order to have a stars and stripes (Americana) theme to connect the two spreads. The decision to turn the students into black and white images came out of a desire to make them more uniform so as not to compete with all the other elements on the spread. Adding the "I am" statements corresponds to the written aspect of this yearbook's theme.

Section Dividers

Yup, these are painted bodies. (And, yup, Greeks are black and white tushes!) The entire staff (but mostly the Core editors) worked as a team to get these accomplished in ONE DAY. This was an incredible shoot to art direct and participate it. Chris Rackliffe, the Editor-in-Chief, has said that he's never felt more creative in his whole life than the day spent shooting these divider pages.
Leah Adams, the Photo editor, and Kara Dapena, the former Assistant Design Director, constructed the "set" and were the real work horses that made this happen -- Kara did a majority of the painting and Leah did all the photography.
The missing section is "Organizations," and also happens to be my favorite! We're waiting to find out how many group photos we're going to end up with, as well as which student organizations will be spotlighted within the section so we can spotlight them on the divider.

The Cover

Very exciting. I have finished the cover design for the 2009 Ibis. There is a slight lime green stroke around the "IAM" of "MIAMI" because our theme for this book is "I AM ... MIAMI".

VT Game Feature (Football Gatefold)

Spread before the football gatefold (insert) about the last home game. The game was against VT, and was an important one for the 'Canes to win. We weren't supposed to win, but we did. This was a powerful and special game for seniors especially, who have only experience the 'Canes in a lull. I used Illustrator to create the mask, Bridge to view and select the photos I wanted (we have excellent photographers this year), and InDesign to bring the whole thing together.

Tentative Endsheets

I say "tentative" because more information needs to be added to the top (front) endsheet. There is a front and a back endsheet to yearbooks - attached to the cover.

Photographer Press Passes

Designed these for our fantastic staff of photographers. The top image is the front of the pass, and the bottom is the back, which has the contact information of the Photo Editor and the Editor-in-Chief just in case things aren't going as planned.

Friendly's "Create Your Own Salad" Menu Insert

Theme Party Sign-up Sheet

Sign-up sheet I designed, using Photoshop, for the Traffic department while interning at Zimmerman Advertising over the summer (2008). The Traffic department has themed pot-luck lunches once a month, and the theme they decided on was a picnic.

"Detour to Friendly's" Table Tent

Prague - Flyer