For the fall issue of The College, St. John's College’s alumni magazine, we introduced new typefaces and more space for large photography, streamlined the template, and made overall structural improvements throughout the magazine. The cover story, an essay on Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and how its message still resonates, features a whimsical cover illustration by Brett Ryder. Two alumni continue the theme of self-sufficiency: a beekeeper concerned with sustaining the planet's plant species, and a barkeeper who transformed an abandoned historic building into a neighborhood pub.