Strike Magazine is the nation’s largest (and most loved) student run magazine. Chattanooga’s chapter, where I have worked since the founding issue, was founded in the fall of 2020. I started my journey as a graphic designer, and now, five issues later, serve as Creative Director.
Strike has given me a community and platform to experiment with and share my passions. I’ve learned that creative collaboration is where I thrive and find the most professional fulfillment. Managing class, work, and running a fully student-led magazine with other incredible individuals has taught me so much about the importance of communication, work ethic, and accountability.
In Creative Direction specifically, i’ve learned the importance of strong leadership and delegation. I've also learned to value the process when creating, and how those are the moments that truly matter and ultimately contribute to an amazing experience and publication.
As a Creative Director I highly value conceptual integrity - I find myself to be extremely detail-oriented and constantly in effort to include elements that subtly knock at the overarching theme. This level of care is what contributes to a piece that’s truly special. Next level attention completely upscales the level of quality and immersion. The greatest joy in layout design is making intentional choices on every page of the magazine. Even our printed advertisements speak to our concept for Issue 05.
Tethered, Spring 2023
The latest issue of Strike Magazine Chattanooga features six photoshoots, each created to uniquely relate to our current human condition of overconsumption.
My goal as Creative Director was to acknowledge a national phenomenon and artfully respond to it using a unique visual language. To represent ideas that can then be transformed to be freshly understood. Through strong conceptual integrity, inclusion, styling, and nuance.
Our team tells this story out of desire to reform the conditions in which we’ve been unnaturally embedded; to reclaim what has kept us tethered.
Creative Director