Right before my final quarter in school, I got the opportunity to take a class about working in a magazine, and learning about how to collaborate with other designers and clients. This was a really big opportunity for me to meet new clients as well.

PGH YOU Magazine was entirely a student based magazine. Even our editor in chief was a student. We all voted together to choose the name, the cover, demographics, even the content. After all that stuff was finally taken care of, we were able to get into the fun stuff! Planning and executing our shots and pages.

I worked with three different graphic designers and 2 sets of clients. The graphic designer I worked the closest with was Kirra Stemler. We were assigned to full page spreads. Together we came up with the page layout and the images we should use. One was an article called "Beauty on a Budget" the other article was called "T Line Adventures". I also did two ads for the magazine. The first ad was for G6 Sports Nutrition, who I worked with the graphic designer Kendra Saffell. The second ad I worked on was an ad for Jerry Records, and my graphic designer was Amber Wellman.

This was probably one of my favorite classes I took while I was in college because it gave me a chance to learn the industry in a new way. Hearing about it and actually being a part of it are two completely different learning experiences.

Below are the images in spreads enjoy!