Grey City

Grey City: Issue 5

Cover photo by Shahzad Ahsan

Update: A logistical mixup prevented today's issue from being delivered on time. It will be resolved tomorrow.

The fifth issue of the Chicago Maroon's [sleeper] quarterly magazine came out today (download the .pdf version here). I updated its visual identity so that it would be consistent with that of the rest of the Maroon, which I redesigned earlier this year. Apart from story-specific types, the entire magazine is set in various, systematically determined weights of Gotham, which, incidentally, is the Maroon's new san-serif typeface, supplanting Futura.

Like the rest of the paper, the new iteration of Grey City is cleaner and more functional than its previous incarnations. The generously-spaced, two-column inside pages mark, in my estimation, an especially pleasant departure from the stale, early 20th century magazine design of the New Yorker et al. You can find the title spreads I designed (and an inside page) below:

Photo by Camille Van Horne; font: Helvetica Neue

Designed in Adobe Illustrator CS3; laid out and typeset in Adobe InDesign CS3; font: Univers

Photo by Camille Van Horne; fonts: Grafinc Extra Black (with slightly modified letterform "C") and Rockwell

See what I'm talking about? Info-graphic designed in Adobe Illustrator CS3

Designed in Adobe Illustrator CS3; laid-out and typeset in Adobe InDesign CS3; font: Quicksand

Bonus: Exciting content occasions commensurately exciting layouts, wherefore Voices received a double-truck centerfold spread in today's issue (see below).

Not bad for a night's work.
Drawn in Adobe Photoshop CS3 using a Wacom Cintiq 12WX tablet; laid out and typeset in Adobe InDesign CS3; fonts: Museo (titles) and Quicksand (body)