2007

North Texas Review

The North Texas Review is a diverse literature and art journal that celebrates the personal creativity and growth of the students at the University of North Texas

In 2007 I volunteered to design the journal. It was a long process of meetings, ideation, typesetting and press checks. I was doing this on top of all of my other work for school, internship and freelance. It was a good experience though.

The book is 115 pages. The cover is offset printed on heavyweight French paper. There is a varnish on the blue but it soaked into the paper and doesn't really show up. Lesson learned. The inside is printed digitally on an HP Indigo.


Cover

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Table of contents


A chart of everyone involved


One of the big things the editor wanted the journal to communicate was diversity. When he told me I kind of cringed a little inside because of the obvious clinches that came to mind. What I ended up doing was using the limited paper choices of digital printing to our advantage. I only had white and off white to choose from for the HP Indigo so I used both. I had the printer mix all of the paper up at random before printing so that each book is different from the next. It's a subtle sophisticated solution that I'm very pleased with.


Artwork by Eric Koch


Artwork by David Pappenhagen

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Call for submissions poster
1 color screen print 13" x 19"


Process sketch.


Process sketch.

Credits
Danny M. Hoey Jr. - Editor-in-Chief
Dustin Aguilar - Managing Editor
Amanda Gann - Assist. Managing Editor / Reader
Ruby Al-Quaem - Fiction Editor
Octavio Quintanilla - Poetry Editor
Ashlie Crooks - Nonfiction Editor
Cayla Bartolucci - Art Editor
Ben Barry - Graphic Designer
Rebekah Mansfield - Webmaster / Reader
Amos Magliocco - Faculty Advisor
Kelley Miller - Reader
M'lyssa Lane - Reader
Nathan Mark Elliott - Reader