The Wake, for which I served as a graphic designer, production manager, and managing editor at various points in time, is an award-winning arts and entertainment-focused publication run by students at the University of Minnesota.

Never being overly well-off on a financial level, we printed on low-grade newsprint—an annoyance at first, but I eventually came to appreciate the idiosyncrasies of the medium. That, coupled with our freedom to experiment, resulted in quite a few interesting and unique designs over the years.