the Challenge

GBDA students are creative and passionate about the content that they develop, however, there is .no   space for them to share their work  within the community. Yes, you can use social media, but it is hard to really connect with students work through that medium. So the question is, how can we .bring together GBDA students in a way that they   can share their work and cultivate community? 

collect

Given the magazine was a new initiative, it was important to get our mission out into the community and have students be interested and want to engage. This is why we leveraged a strong social media team that put together a unique campaign to get students to submit. In the end, we had over 150 pieces of work submitted.

layout

The editors and I decided that we wanted to create a layout that would highlight the student work, yet still, create an interesting layout that would connect the variety of work. With this goal in mind, we landed on a geometric style that used vibrant colours that tied to students' works. 

print

Since the magazine is a student-run initiative, we had no monetary ability to fund our magazine to hand out our magazines for free. With this hurdle, we reached out to the Arts Endowment Fund to sponsor our magazine. They were able to support us and helped us print 350 copies of our magazines to give to students without any cost. 

the outcome

Our team created  30 pages of student work  that brought our community together and celebrate the work that is created. We were able to provide students the  chance to showcase their work  and be able to create validity behind their passions. Given the success, the magazine is being funded again to produce a  magazine every semester to continue this initiative.