San Marcos Stars

Here is the San Marcos Stars issue of the advertising supplement Satellite. I oversee the production of Satellite for The Star. In this issue, readers previously voted online at universitystar.com who their favorite local business is for a particular category.

In this particular issue, and why I am posting this, I designed the entire issue myself, front to back, minus the ads, in a very long day. Usually design on Satellite is done by the graphic designers. I also did quite a bit of editing on this issue. The cover is a play off of the house ad that was done by the advertising coordinator. When coordinating these issues, I like to try to use the same theme from the promotional house ads to make the whole product come full circle.

It's a labor of love. Therefore, I'm posting the whole issue. Click on the images to get a closer look.

Internship pt. 4

Here are a few inside pages from the 16-page spread Back to School issue. I was able to copy them from The Eagle's website. So the ads are there.

A lot of the content was school supply and contact lists, football schedules, etc., and i had to do a lot of reformatting the text to get what I could to fit. I took care to make sure a list or calendar did not cut off in the middle of a school subheading, meaning all the supplies and contacts are there for the school listed. The rest of the schools were put online.

*I tried to include clipart where I could to brighten up the pages and break up the text.


*This page had a triangle ad they gave me the hardest time when giving it enough gutter space. I took care to pay attention to the text spacing along the hypotenuse.

Internship - pt. 3

Here are a few of the inside pages for Land and Livestock Post, minus the advertising. I copy edited, wrote headlines, and did layout design for the 22-page spread. The LLP already had a standard look and format, including its house ads. However, because I did not have the freedom to adjust the ads to the space I needed them to, and the ads just looked to be out of date. So I made some of my own using the photos already on the LLP photos on the server. I learned a lot about QuarkXPress and NewsEdit Pro during the production and became more comfortable with what I had already learned.

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*Notice the house ad on page below

*This is the center spread/main feature. It was on the drought and how the area had seen an unusually high amount of rainfall.

Internship - pt. 2

Here are the section fronts and front page I completed. I not only designed, but I copy edited and wrote headlines. Although, right now I don't remember which headlines I did write.
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Intership - pt. 1

I know it's been a long time and these are a little late, but here is an update on my life and portfolio.

I've now completed the first semester of my senior year, and crunch time is starting to find a job for after graduation.

Over the summer, I completed an internship at The Eagle in Bryan. I did copy editing and layout design. Because The Eagle is not a large newspaper, I feel like I had more opportunity to learn and be useful. I earned the opportunity to work on and design a few front pages for the region section and even a front page.

After a month of working at The Eagle, I was asked to design the July 1 issue of Land and Livestock Post, a bimonthly, agriculture publication. A month later, the editor asked me to help out and do the inside pages of the Back to School issue.

Graduation gift

These prints I designed for a graduation gift for my boyfriend. He's an Aggie, if you couldn't tell. Kyle Field is probably his favorite place on campus and the Victory Eagle statue is his favorite of many monuments on campus.

He loves sports (hence the Vince Lombardi quote) and the scripture from Isaiah is what he would say to himself before cross country meets in high school. He's also an Eagle Scout. The scripture was on his letter jacket in high school and on his college graduation announcements (which I didn't find out until after I had these printed and framed).

The photos I found online and sent through Photoshop to get the right size and resolution to avoid looking too digital.

I'll upload a picture of the framed final project later. They are pretty much in this order to coordinate the maroon colors on the sides of the Victory Eagle. To see one of these prints close up just click on it.

Basics every college student should have in their kitchen

This is the article I wrote for the Housing Guide ad supplement.

I not only wrote, but edited and helped production of this issue.