Vices: Coping with academic pressure
For Vices, Sydney wanted to create the sense of the messiness but also the stress of getting involved with drugs, alcohol, and vaping as a pressured high school student. Sydney used brightened pictures of flour to create the lines of cocaine–and opted to use the cocaine lines for at the top of the page instead of traditional header lines–then I used cut-out pictures of a vape, an alcohol bottle, a pill bottle and cap, and pills. Sydney strung everything around in a slightly messy but still thought-out manner to emphasize how these things become vices to students in stressful situations.
Banned
After Sydney’s high school district banned four books from their school libraries, Sydney created this cover and back cover duo design, which pushed her to learn Photoshop for the first time. All the redacted words represent the literature and knowledge taken away from readers and students, while the words “banned” in bright red create an eye-catching contrast to the main double truck feature story in the issue.
Removed
Removed was the article that went along with the Banned cover, so I used similar elements to tie them together but also made sure they were two different designs. Removed was a very long article, so there was little design space to work with, and I had to experiment with different ideas to make everything fit. I ultimately created a book page texture for the background and added red marker strokes, redacted lines, pencil lines, and a torn page to represent what was taken away from students and the unseen harmfulness of it.
Should Supreme Court Justices have term limits?
Sydney created this design for an opinion faceoff article about whether Supreme Court Justices should have term limits. She kept the design simple with a large text headline and a vector of a skeleton in Supreme Court Justice robes. This was to play around with the age limits talked about in the article.