I’ve been commissioned on three occasions to make print ads for the University of Texas School of Law to appear in CLEO Edge magazine, a publication for minorities seeking information about education in the legal field. I don’t usually do much print work, so I enjoyed having the chance to lay out some type, play with CMYK inks, and work with the excellent photography of Mark Rutkowski (which I heavily tweaked in Photoshop — sorry, Mark!).
When I revamped the UT Law homepage back in 2005, one of the previous homepage’s design elements had to be sent out to pasture: the single “rotating” highlight button that accompanied each major news or event announcement. They were very time-consuming for a tiny shop like ours as they had to be made by hand using Photoshop each time an event came along, and setting the type was always tricky (there’s a reason that the newer design featured buttons separated from their headlines!). I miss working with these, though — they were a good exercise in design, photography, and typography. Above are a handful of my favorites out of the hundreds I ended up creating.