Stella Veritatis Spreads and Cover

In 2018, my Graphic Design 2 class was tasked with a project turned competition: design several different magazine covers for our school literary magazine, Stella Veritatis, and they will select one to be the cover. The race was on, and my classmates and I rushed to our stations, sketching out ideas and finding inspiration. In addition to creating covers, we were also each given several poems, each in need of a spread for designing. I was daunted by this task initially, as it was my first real project that was actually going to be mass printed and given out around the school. The designs for the poems came quite easily to me; the poems gave plenty of inspiration and I had a pretty clear vision of the direction I wanted to go. The cover, however, was another story, and I was even caught working on my options thirty minutes before we were to present our covers to the magazine heads. Admittedly, the cover option shown below was created during those thirty minutes. It was a huge risk I wouldn’t recommend, but I showed it to the team as one of my top two design options. But in a shocking twist, the team actually loved it, and it was selected as one of the final four options for the final cover. While it didn’t end up winning after all, I am still proud of the work I put out.