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.

Homecoming spreads

One of the greatest criticisms of the previous yearbook (2007-2008) was how spreads with the same topic (and sequential) didn't flow or look like they belonged together - due to not having an element to tie them together. This has been a huge challenge that I wanted to take on. There will be four Homecoming spreads, one series of several we're planning to have in the 2009 book. The challenge we're having with the other two spreads is a strong enough dominant photo to run the entire length of the spread (and if not, what alternatives we have), and the readability of the timeline in the corner of the bottom spread (which will appear in the same spot on each of the spreads).

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.