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New editor on board? Bored comms team? Fragmented

New editor on board? Bored comms team? Fragmented design? These may be contributing factors to revisit your magazine, but they should not be the driving factors to redesign. When considering the commitment and budget needed for a redesign, you have to look beyond internal factors to your readership and communications plan. In fact, there are a number of reasons why a redesign might be in order.
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St. Mark’s magazine celebrates its community in

St. Mark’s magazine celebrates its community in the latest issue: Retirees, Graduates, and the Gray Colloquium Speakers, and a graduate changing policy. Editors: Caleb Cochran, Jackie Winters, and Sandra Levandowski
Illustrators & Photographers: Al Williams (#1 and #4), Taylor Callery (#2), Sandra Levandowski (#3), Sean Pressley (#5)
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Kent Place Fall 2022—an issue in numbers. 78 gra

Kent Place Fall 2022—an issue in numbers. 78 graduates celebrate commencement. 10 students share amazing things they are doing outside of school. The Bioethics Project completed its 10th year. The Black Cultural Association commemorates 50 years. Editor: Rachel Naggar
Illustrators and Photographers: Laura Barisonzi (#1); Will Hauser (#2); Jasu Hu/Marlena Agency (# 3); Juliette Borda, illustration & John Doyle, photo (#5)
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The 2022 Folio Ozzie Awards named their winners—

The 2022 Folio Ozzie Awards named their winners—we are thrilled that Medicine@Brown received a Gold for Design/Single Issue. Competition was tough so we are particularly honored. Congratulations to the Honorable Mentions: Seek, Carleton College Voice, and Insight from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology—all beautiful publications. Editors: Kris Cambra and Phoebe Hall
Illustrators & Photographers: Nixole Xu, John Johnson, James Chororos, Lincoln Agnew, and Sarabeth Maney
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InstagramLive! September 16@ 12:00 EDT Josh Terry,

InstagramLive! September 16@ 12:00 EDT
Josh Terry, Visual Content Director at Meta, chats with Creative Director, Kelly McMurray about creating digital narrative experiences.
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One of the wonderful aspects of editorial design i

One of the wonderful aspects of editorial design is working with talented illustrators and photographers around the world. They bring their thinking and approach to each assignment to make the story unique. For years we have wanted to work with Cannaday Chapman and we finally had the opportunity–the feature story for John Jay Impact. His thoughtfulness and concepts were perfect for the story and the final pieces were beautiful. And he was an amazing person to work with to boot!
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From Maine to Florida our clients are producing st

From Maine to Florida our clients are producing stunning covers! Bowdoin alumni, Lyne Lucien ’13, captured the spirit of the Commencement with this beautiful illustration. Art directed by Melissa Wells. While down the coast at the University of Tampa, Art Director Erin Dixon worked with photographer Mark Vaughn to shoot the new cutting-edge digital film studio at UT.
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Inspiration. Nobles faculty inspire their students

Inspiration. Nobles faculty inspire their students. The students inspire their faculty. The alumni inspire all. The redesigned Nobles celebrates everyone and their unique accomplishments.
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Experience. Curiosity and a passion for lifelong l

Experience. Curiosity and a passion for lifelong learning are at the heart of Nobles. From sharing their experience, testing out a go kart, to participating in morning Assembly the Nobles community builds strong leaders wherever they go.
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The Summer 2022 issue of Nobles is a transformatio

The Summer 2022 issue of Nobles is a transformation. 10 years after the last redesign (also developed by us!), we reveal the evolution of the Nobles community through our goal of capturing community, inspiration, and experience in each image, story, and layout. From the critique by our incredible partner Vicki Glembocki, through the development of the issue with the talented Nobles team, we worked to bring the spirit of Nobles to life. Community. An alumni magazine should embody its community—the people that make it the place that it is. From cover-to-cover the vibrancy of Nobles explodes from the pages.
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Save-the-Date: August 18@ 12:00 EDT Jan Abernathy,

Medicine@Brown has received an Award of Excellence

Medicine@Brown has received an Award of Excellence from the 2022 UCDA Design Awards. Illustrator Israel Vargas transformed a supplied portrait of the Dean to transform what could have been a straight forward Q&A. And then we had a blast designing it! Editors: Kris Cambra and Phoebe Hall
Illustrator: Israel Vargas
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Brooklyn Law, Medicine@Brown, Nobles, and Winsor a

Brooklyn Law, Medicine@Brown, Nobles, and Winsor all received Honorable Mentions from the UCDA 2022 Design Awards. Competition was tough with 775 print and digital entries and a total of 151 awards—13 Gold Awards, 27 Silver Awards and 111 Awards of Excellence!
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Inspired Series #8 We don’t get to create great

Inspired Series #8 We don’t get to create great work without great clients. Since we redesigned Nobles in 2012 we have partnered with the N&G communications team to create memorable issues. The Winter 2013 cover continues to be a fave with a stunning portrait by Kathleen Dooher. Nobles Team: Heather Sullivan, Kim Neal, Ben Heider, Anne McManus
Photographer: Kathleen Dooher
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The work that we create is inspired by the people we work with—the communication directors, writers, editors, illustrators, photographers, and videographers. The stories that we read. The places we visit. The research that we conduct. And the people that the work impacts.
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Creative season: Working on an animation for a rea

Creative season: Working on an animation for a really amazing coalition.
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There are many alumni communications that could ho

There are many alumni communications that could hold their own on the newsstand. Once a vehicle for strictly sharing campus news and accolades, these publications have become a platform for thought leadership and community engagements. Journalists and editors have moved from the consumer space into higher ed, reshaping the landscape to tell impactful stories that broaden engagement. And now, more and more alumni publications are becoming important vehicles to cover once-shied-away-from topics such as a women’s right to choose, living in a pandemic, and racial injustice.
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