A hard-cover book of student art, photography, fiction and poetry

The Sierra Journal is a yearly book of student art, curated and designed by volunteer students for Sierra College. In collaboration with faculty from the English department, I was intimately involved with every step of the creation process for the 2009-2010 journal.

As a lead designer, I helped create mock-ups and page samples used to approve funding for the project. From there, I closely supervised the book design and philosophy with my peers. After being involved with the democratically-run curation, voting and editing for the student submissions, I saw the details of the book through to the end; including working with a printer and binder to create the finished product.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Spear-headed the pre-visualization and example pages that got the project approved and funded.
• Worked with college faculty to facilitate additional art and writing submissions.
• Developed a curation process and rubric to allow volunteer students to review and rate submitted work.
• Colaborated with peers to design the layout and master pages of the book.
• Personally finalized all design and copy before publishing.
• Researched to find a local printer and binder that worked with our budget.