Carolina on my Mind Magazine

Created in fall 2023 for MEJO 683 (Magazine Design)

For my magazine class, I was chosen as the assistant art director for one of our two magazines, which we made about North Carolina and titled “Carolina on My Mind.” The art director and I decided its mission and content, created a style guide, and managed 14 students’ work. The style guide included fonts, color schemes, tone words, layout, and overall design feel. We created a Pinterest board with examples of appropriate graphic styles for the other students to gain inspiration from, as well as provide shared folders with design assets like paper textures. The two of us were in charge of helping brainstorm and refine designs for our classmates’ articles, ensuring students turned in their work on time, providing 1-on-1 feedback for each student 2-4 times, making final copyedits to each of those revised drafts, and coordinating with our professor to determine individual grades.

For my article, I chose to create a six-page well about the state’s geography, broken down by its three distinct regions. I created 6 unique “postcards,” combining about 50 individual photos either taken by myself or sourced from stock websites. I also designed the magazine’s Table of Contents spread, which features designs from 5 students’ articles.

My Personal Designs

Final Product

Sketches

Assistant Art Director Work

Style Guide

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Copyedits

The final magazine included 28 spreads, plus a front and back cover. Below is a PDF of 8 of those spreads with mistakes I marked using circles, strikethroughs, and arrows (I did not include the other 20 spreads for the sake of brevity). After these changes were made, the magazine was complete. Red marks indicate outright mistakes while blue marks indicate design suggestions I passed by the Art Director. Click on the image below to be taken to the PDF.