Windhover is the undergraduate literary magazine of North Carolina State University. The magazine is published annually through Student Media, and it features student-submitted prose, poetry, essays, art, design and a music-compilation disc. The design team faced the challenge of working within a reduced budget to integrate a variety of submissions that demonstrate the breadth of creative talent at the university. Our concept for the 42nd edition was simple: residue. In other words, the idea of something remaining or being left behind, but that carries meaning and is not to be disposed of, just as each student leaves behind an imprint during his or her time in college. Certain design elements were used and repeated throughout the pages to further convey the concept, create rhythm and pace, and establish an overall commonality among variety. Tracing contours to echo certain shapes then accumulating them for the CD design as well as wrapping images to create continuity throughout the magazine were implemented as part of our design process.

Tight and well designed the whole way through. So much fun.