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Designing Excellence: Creation Of A Production System And Visual Identity For Areté, The Honors College Newsletter, Kathryn Wilson

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

In this writeup, I describe the process and results of redesigning the Honors newsletter and creating a production system to guide its staff in efficient and consistent publications. My redesign included researching what other publications are doing; choosing fonts, colors, and a layout scheme; and creating templates and style guides. The production system includes an ideal schedule, staff member job descriptions, and a flowchart of how the system should work. I also created and included a writing style guide, which (along with the design style guide) is meant to be updated as needed.