Although I am editor-in-chief of the school newspaper/newsmagazine, my strength lies with designing a page and "making it look pretty," whatever that means. Below are the "best" pages I have designed for my school newspaper, Altitude. Please note that unless indicated, there is no need to actually read the articles. (I know how busy you are!)
[For the full experience, I recommend looking at the pages side-by-side. Go to the right corner of the PDF>"Continuous-Facing." Or left click on the tool bar>"More Tools...">Page Display>Two-Up. Depending on the edition of Adobe Reader, these instructions may or may not work.]
My best best works are bolded, in case you are running low on time and/or patience.
1) Sophomore, 2007: This was my very first spread design. It looks fairly simple, but I'm quite pleased with it because I designed the "quote" look and Mythbusters-like "busted" myself. http://cocokiss457.fileave.com/sleep.pdf
2) Sophomore, 2008: This spread is perhaps the most visually appealing one I have ever designed. I came up with the "Did You Know" look and designed the recycling numbers.
http://cocokiss457.fileave.com/green.pdf
3) Junior, 2008: A slightly cheesy spread, but I definitely had a lot of fun designing the whole page. The timeline piece was time-consuming, but I thought it turned out really well.
http://cocokiss457.fileave.com/hc.pdf
4) Junior 2008: We did a special election issue, and the layout for the spread is one of my favorites. It has a lot going on, but it was so much fun to design. The wordle, the t-shirt, the pie charts, and the people blurbs each bring something new and fresh to the page.
http://cocokiss457.fileave.com/election.pdf
5) Junior, 2009: How ironic that the "de-stress" spread was perhaps the most stressful to design. After asking reporters to email things that make them happy, all the editors had to narrow down the list to about 100 things. I then had the pleasure of manipulating the 100 things into something interesting. This spread took me hours to finish...
http://cocokiss457.fileave.com/STRESS.pdf
6) Senior, 2009: The idea of "Things to do Before You Graduate" was circulating in my mind since about sophomore year so being able to make it happen was quite exciting. I wrote most of the blurbs under each headline which my friend art-ified. If you look on the right side, there's a more in-depth look of my own high school journey.
http://cocokiss457.fileave.com/15things.pdf
7) Senior, 2009: Originally the sports page designer, I believe that this sports page is my best. It was put together at the very, very last minute, but it turned out much better than I imagined. It's very visually appealing and just "cool-looking."
http://cocokiss457.fileave.com/sports2.pdf
8) To be continued as the year goes on...
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