As the designers of Culver Academies' alumni magazine, we created this introductory spread for a story telling the one hundred year history of various pandemics which were occasionally inflicted upon the student, faculty, and staff population.

We took a clean and clear approach that allowed the bold san serif type, the bright red, and the full bleed historic photograph to work together resulting in a strong intro spread for the story. To emphasize the sense of crisis we chose a vintage photograph of the gymnasium that was once used as a makeshift hospital, and we shook the text in the headline.

The story was quite popular, perhaps because the enticing intro spread caught the eye of many readers.