We recently completed another issue of Bloom, Bryn Mawr’s admissions magazine, designed for girls ages 6 to 16. The cover story, All in a Day, follows a senior hour-by-hour through her day. Other stories include What’s In Your Backpack, Code Yourself, Coming Home and Speak Your Mind, plus interactive articles such as student curated playlists, reader responses and a this + that quiz.
A personal approach to financial aid. A best buy that’s totally worth it. This sums up the approach behind the financial aid booklet we designed in our ongoing admissions work for York College of Pennsylvania. Personalized and caring, York makes the financial aid process easy to navigate. And the results are positive, with 99% of new full-time students receiving aid and/or grants.
Illustrations by Claudi Kessels.
The fall 2021 issue of York College Magazine focuses on community engagement. The cover story is about a scholarship program that gives high school students a tuition-free education at York College, a worthwhile investment because many of the program’s recipients give back to the community after graduation.
A second feature focuses on the Student Academic Innovation Lab (S.A.I.L) which applies design-thinking to build stronger bonds of collaboration and engagement between students and faculty in the Spartan community.
The University of Baltimore Magazine for Fall 2021 highlights the artistic visions of three photographers. The snowy street scene on the cover is by A. Aubrey Bodine, who chronicled the city for The Baltimore Sun and whose daughter Jennifer Bodine, is the keeper of his legacy. The photos of Sue Tatterson range from East Coast abandoned spaces to vistas of the American Southwest. And Kimberlee Jenkins focuses on vibrant, authentic portraits of her subjects.
The winter 2021 issue of Breakthrough, Johns Hopkins Medicine’s research journal, features the Institute for Humanizing Medicine, whose mission is to equip clinicians to better know their patients as unique individuals. Other articles include an interview with the clinician that coined the term “personomics”; how the humanities and social sciences must play a vital role in the training of excellent physicians; and significant advances in geriatrics from the Human Aging Project.
Read the new issue on the CIM website.
We recently designed the next two issues of Leap Rounds, a bi-annual newsletter that serves as an extension of Leap Magazine. Each issue focuses on a key doctor or researcher of Johns Hopkins Medicine Division of Rheumatology. The fall issue features Dr. Baer, an expert on Sjogren’s Disease and the winter issue features Dr. Christopher-Stine, director of the Johns Hopkins Myositis Center.
Illustrations by Andre De Loba and gel-lit photography by Howard Korn.
The fall 2021 issue of Pathways Magazine features Howard Community College’s outgoing president, Kate Hetherington, and her lasting legacy after leading the College for 14 years. Also included is a profile on a member of Howard P.R.I.D.E., and a service story on HCC’s dental hygiene program.
When UMN’s School of Public Health contacted us to refresh their alumni magazine, we recommended three essential changes: (1) develop a clear editorial hierarchy throughout the magazine, (2) divide the magazine into distinct sections that include recurring themes and departments, and (3) limit feature stories to two or three, opening each one with unique artwork and typography to distinguish these longer stories from other sections of the magazine.
The Fall 2021 issue of University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management Magazine features “Beyond Bitcoin”: a story on blockchain, the transactional platform that runs cryptocurrency. A second feature focuses on how corporate human resource leaders are reimagining the future of work. Profiles include an economist that takes a multi-view approach and an alum that uses travel as a catalyst for creative work. Cover story illustrations by Adam Simpson.
The fall 2021 issue of NURSING FOR/UM, the alumni magazine of the University of Maryland School of Nursing, features “The Gen Z Nurse”: the youngest nurses entering the workforce and members of the most diverse, well-educated, and politically active generation in human history. Other stories include “The Human Touch”: nurse researchers who work with human subjects to advance health care and improve outcomes” and “Impact: Getting Physical as We Age.”
