I've mentioned before that I'm a page editor for the Octagon, my school newspaper., meaning I essentially make one of the pages for our monthly issues. Anyway, for our last issue of the year a couple weeks ago, I asked for backpage.
For some reason, SANJANA (love you Sanjana) always saw fit to assign me to the Editorial or News pages at the beginning of the year, and I've never had that many design-y pages. And backpage is very design-y.
This issue's was maybe too much so. Here it is:
OK, BOY WAS THIS A LOT OF WORK.
First off, this was smack-dab in the middle of May, so I had all my AP exams going on. And, oh so many assets and cut-outs. This took me practically a dozen hours.
Senior superlatives are essentially just those yearbook titles that people get assigned, as you can see. So, Kali polled all of the seniors on these, and this is essentially what we got.
I had to figure out how to stuff about twenty seniors on a page with their voted roles, and have it look pretty and nice. Another, lesser, page designer might have only picked a couple, made them nice and orderly and pretty, and called it a day.
NOT ME. I, pretty early, had a vision of just stuffing everything together, very scrapbook-esque and very Photoshop-y. It wouldn't be nice and ordered, but hopefully, it would have a sense of purposeful messiness yet adequate design. Went through a couple of rough patches in the middle trying to fit everything, but, I think I got there. And I'm proud of it.
It just took a heck of a long time, really. A lot of late paste-up days that week. Later than even Sanjana stayed up on some days. I mean, I have almost 50 images on this page. Ugh, it took forever to clean those up in Photoshop. Longer even to just come up with what I wanted to do for each person first. Then ages at the end trying to stuff it all together without any gaps or odd spacings.
Boy, did those seniors have a laugh.
If you'd like to check out the Octagon website, here it is: scdsoctagon.com. You can even get email notifications for new stories! (I know the website is a bit slow, I'm working on that, ok?)
My personal staff page with my stories is here: author/ngulati22scdsstudent-org
Thanks for reading!