Today I’m practicing slow journalism. Today I said yes to an opportunity to which common sense dictated I say no. I drove south instead of north. I skipped the office, I went well off-campus; out on a limb, on the lam…
Category: Art & Design
Letter Perfect
We have prints from the Saint John’s Bible on display in the Baer and, to complement these contemporary hand-illuminated folios, some of our own medieval texts are on show next door in the Permanent Collection Gallery. These pages must be…
In-triguing Enough
When we redesigned our print-issue Table of Contents page we found we needed an unobtrusive way of differentiating the various online extras listed. Headlines were too much, so instead we devised a bolded lead-in phrase (there’s probably a term for it) to…
Blossoming Rivalry
Drew is having a little contest against himself to see how many Likes his photography can get on the college’s Facebook page. He enjoys taking off with a camera from time to time to see what’s going on around…
Between the Covers
Well, my summer’s reading is set. There’s a towering stack of books in the corner of my office, gathered in anticipation of a photo shot Monday and, once that’s over, I can’t wait to get stuck in. For one of…
Old Friend, New Friend
We’ve been talking about a redesign for the magazine for a couple of years now, and I’ve been broaching the topic whenever I run into an interested reader. I’ve sometimes been taken aback by the typical response: “Why?” But I’ve…
A Word From the First Year
Happy anniversary to us! A year ago today publications intern Nicole Jagielski ’12 and I launched this blog with a post called – and I believe you can see the full might of our joint creative powers at work there –…
A Week in Portraits
Acquired, commissioned, art directed, shot. Swapped. Mooched. A scrapbook of this past week offered in awed appreciation to Bart Colson in Zwevegem, Belgium; Mike Roemer and Corey Wilson in Green Bay; Alan King and Michael Diedrick at the Milwaukee Journal…
Meeting by design
I really like working among creative people! We’ve been connecting with the team ahead of our coming magazine redesign, and this is Drew’s agenda for our brainstorming session.
Picture perfect
We’re used to our hockey players making skating headlines, but when we heard that figure-skater Peter Biver ’98 and his pairs partner had made it to nationals, we paid attention. And when, just a few weeks later, we met Megan…
