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 –…
Category: St. Norbert College Publications
Matters of Science
Well, we knew we’d have good news about science to share in our next issue: we just couldn’t necessarily say what that might be or when we would hear. So we prepped a cover story about the future of science education;…
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…
How to Excel in Dutch
I’ve been developing an article about a Belgian who collects Praemonstratensia – items connected to the history of our founding order. He’s sent me a carefully prepared Excel document in which he has his collection mapped item by item, abbey by…
Return to the Library
I like books; I like words; I like it when we can (rarely) commission art for the magazine; and I like Father Jim Neilson ’88, a lot! So no surprise that Winter 2008 is one of my favorite covers. The…
All in a day’s Christmas
It’s been a festive and Christmassy 24 hours in the office of communications at St. Norbert. We: sent out the college’s video Christmas greeting; enjoyed the creative ho-ho-ho flair of our team-mate, graphic designer Nick Patton ’03. (Click the right-hand…
In this week’s news
So what have we got going on around here? From the college’s Facebook page: New NCAA record-holder Jack Taylor and his high-scoring Grinnell team take on the Knights in Schuldes this afternoon. Karen Park (Religious Studies) blogs for Sojourners. Bud…
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…
Love conquers all
It’s amazing the number of small miracles that come your way when you set out to make a magazine. Here’s the latest, in the shape of a snap sent in by one of our readers. The shoot we planned for…
