Pwatem: A Student Literary and Illustration Magazine

Pwatem is a student-run literary and Illustration magazine publication, that exists within Virginia Commonwealth University’s Student Media Center. Within this organization, my role in Pwatem is Art Director. Some responsibilities of this position includes formulating a color scheme and visual theme, create an illustration guide for illustrators within the club, oversee/organize/collect illustrations from illustrators per writing piece, and to design the publication itself. This opportunity was a great way to put myself in a leader position which allowed me to work within a team, yet still be able to put my personal spin on the visual style.

The images above were what I provided to students as inspiration along with a specific illustration guide to help manage their illustrations. The poster to the left was the poster I designed as outreach for students to submit writing samples for the publication. The poster was distributed all around campus.

Below is the final publication design, printed on Mohawk, Skytone, a yellow speckletone paper to mimic old manuscript pages. Saddle stitched, 5”x7”