MIPA Selected Work for News Design
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NSPA:
Print Pacemaker, 2022
Pacemaker Winner, The Communicator Magazine
Best of Show, Fall 2022
Fourth Place, The Communicator Magazine
Best of Show, Fall 2021
Seventh Place, The Communicator Magazine
Best of Show, Spring 2022
First Place, The Communicator Magazine
CSPA:
2022-2023
Crown Finalist, High School Hybrid News: The Communicator
2021-2022
Gold Crown Winner, High School Hybrid News: The Communicator
Crown Finalist, High School Hybrid News: The Communicator
Edition 2, January 2023
This story featured two students who met through school, but became friends through music. I wrote this story with one other staff member and photographed the event with two other staff members. While covering the event, I kept in mind the layout of a page and to have a wide range of photos: close-up portraits, fisheyes of the audience, the calm and exciting moments, performing and after performing and the audience’s reactions. While creating the page, I wanted to include a range of these. Creating a photo story layout, including room for my story, allowed me to create an efficient, understandable spread.
Edition 2, January 2022
NSPA AWARDS
Clips and Clicks, Spring 2022, Honorable Mention, Sports Story: “Reflections in the Glass”
MIPA 2021-2022 AWARDS
1st Place, Sports Feature Story: “Reflections in the Glass”
1st Place, Sports Page or Spread: “Reflections in the Glass”
This story featured several students who did dance and their several different, and some similar, experiences. Working with an artist on staff, she created art for this article. Using these in the design, the page needed some color, so I decided to add in vertical light pink lines between columns, instead of our traditionally black lines, and horizontal lines to emphasize the pull quote. The “double” title was also meant to give a reflection illusion, playing off mirrors referenced repeatedly in the article.
Edition 4, April 2022
NSPA AWARDS
Photo of the Year, Fall 2022, Honorable Mention, Environmental Portrait: “Coming Into Confidence”
A picture is worth 1,000 words, and in this design I really wanted the photos to be everything. While looking for a simple, clean spread, I went with using photos and minimal colored text to pull from the photos. The text included gives an idea of who Sumaya is and her fashion story. The photos highlight her style with a warm, rustic vibe.
Edition 3, February 2020
MIPA 2019-2020 AWARDS
First Place, Personality Profile: “Closet Door of Glass”
I wrote this article my freshman year and it was one of my first few in print. I spent hours making the spread and created over a dozen drafts before I landed on this one. To get there, I was helped by one of the previous Print-Editor-in Chiefs. She helped me not only finish the page, but learn the tools to create my next page with a little less help until I was the one helping other people create their page and in the same role she was in. This story pushed both my writing, design and photography skills.
Edition 5: Senior Edition, June 2020
NSPA AWARDS
Design of the Year Fall 2020, Fifth Place, Design for Feature Page/Spread: “Time Cut Short”
This article was a reflection of the end of high school for a senior who graduated in 2020 after we had gone fully virtual and were in quarantine. I used the yellow to highlight different features on the page and emphasize “2020.” The design uses a simple photo, short story, pull quote and other design elements to create a clean, interesting spread.
Edition 1, November 2020
NSPA AWARDS
Best of Show, Spring 2022, Seventh Place, Newsmagazine Design: “Proust: Leah White”
Best of Show, Fall 2020, Second Place, Newspaper/Newsmagazine Design: “Proust Questionnaire: Leah White”
Clips and Clicks, Fall 2020, Fourth Place, Magazine Page/Spread: “Leah White”
MIPA 2020-2021 AWARDS
Third Place, Alternative Story Form: “Proust: Leah White”
This spread is one of my absolute favorites from the past four years; it is from the beginning of my sophomore year and was the beginning of my constant: Proust Questionnaire. In total, I have published nine more Proust Questionnaire’s since Leah’s. In this design, I love the photo (purposefully leaving room for the text), the combination of fonts and styles, the drop cap and the contrasting colors.
Edition 2, January 2023
This is our second edition Table of Contents this year. It is based off a template I created this summer when preparing for the school year. I wanted the story package (far left) to stand out and for the other sections to be clear. I also wanted a clean look that gave space for both photography and art which this template accomplished.
Edition 3, February 2022
MIPA 2021-2022 AWARDS
1st Place, Alternative Story Form: “In the Museum”
This article is an alternative story form featuring the University of Michigan Museum of Art. The goal was to give a glimpse of current exhibits at the museum and share art! When coming up with this idea, right away I wanted the design to be colorful and photo heavy. After many drafts, I landed on large color blocks to tie the art and the text together and create a flow through the spreads.
Edition 4, April 2022
NSPA AWARDS
Design of the Year, Fall 2022, Honorable Mention, Newsmagazine Page/Spread, Story Package: “Bloom”
Clips and Clicks, Spring 2022, Second Place, Magazine Page/Spread: “Bloom”
Our fourth edition last year’s theme was “Bloom.” In this, was a 20-page story package featuring pivotal, “blooming” moments in student’s and staff’s lives. In the story package, each person has a similar, close up portrait in black and white. We kept the cover black and white and used a different picture of the student to connect the cover to the stories. In this design, I took 16 of the 18 photos, including the cover. When planning the design, working with my co-Editor-in-Chiefs, we chose close-up, black and white portraits to represent the personal, unique stories shared.
Edition 3, March 2021
NSPA AWARDS
Design of the Year, Spring 2021, Fourth Place, Newsmagazine Design: “Through the Window”
This was the first story package I worked on for “The Communicator.” I worked with the Print-Editors-in-Chief to photograph several students in the package and for the cover and inside cover. Working on this, I took photos for the cover three separate times, until I got the perfect photo for the edition. Working with the editors, I got a glimpse into the role and learned to photograph mindfully for designs.
Edition 1, November 2021
NSPA AWARDS
Best of Show, Fall 2021, Tenth Place, Newsmagazine Design: “Return to School”
MIPA AWARDS
Honorable Mention, Story Package: “Return to School”
Honorable Mention, Front Page - Newsmagazine Style: “Return to School”
In Fall 2021, we went back to fully in-person for the first time since March, 2020, so we chose the theme “Return to School” for our first edition. We included pictures of each student with their story to get people and some familiar faces in print, especially since we were in-person and had easy access students and photos.
Edition 1, November 2022
This story package was from our first edition this year. Working with the art team from start to finish, we planned an art story where the characters shown repair and heal the heart throughout divider pages in the magazine. In the story package, students reflect on their healing moments. The stories are all accompanied with a small character as well.
Edition 2, January 2023
This was our Color Stories Package in the second edition this year. Each interview was prompted with a full set of Pantone cards where they picked one color, and they then described it and a memory they associated with that color. For the package’s cover page, I took individual pictures of each card, cropped the pictures and created a grid, in their original order, on Indesign. To counter the aligned, perfectly ordered cards, I scattered the writing and played with the colors. The color accompanying each story is the color each student chose along with the Pantone number.
