Editorial Design

Editorial Spreads

Five spreads for five real articles: coastlines, volcanoes, the Cascadia subduction zone, how gold nuggets form, and whether lucid dreaming helps with anxiety. Here the typography melts away so someone can happily read nine hundred words about volcanoes.

A spread titled VOLCANOS in glowing orange over a black photograph of lava, subtitled 'everything to know about nature's geologic architects'.

Project: Coursework and self-directed studies
Role: Layout, editorial design, typography
Scope: Five editorial spreads
Tools: InDesign, Illustrator

Let the reading flow

The typography stays quiet so the reader simply glides to the end of the article. Every spread runs a big entry point, a clear second level for pull quotes and sidebars, and a comfortable measure you can stay inside for three columns.

Each one still gets a single display moment that belongs to its subject: a ghosted headline for the tide, a glow for the lava, a fault line down the gutter.

A spread titled COASTLINES over a photograph of surf at dusk, with a deck reading 'The line where land meets water is constantly changing and reshaping' and three columns of body text. — **Coastlines.** The headline overlaps its own ghost, the one playful typographic flourish the piece allows itself.

A spread asking 'How the big one near Seattle could trigger an earthquake in San Francisco', with a torn white fault line running down the page between two columns. — **Cascadia.** The fault runs down the gutter and splits the spread, so the diagram is the layout.

A spread headed 'How Do Gold Nuggets Form? Earthquakes May be the Key' in gold serif type on navy, with a secondary headline reading 'Cobwebs of Gold'. — **Gold nuggets.** Two headline levels doing real work: the question, then the image that answers it.

A spread reading 'Lucid dreams can help reduce anxiety. Here's how.' set on an angle over a photograph of a figure standing under a dawn sky. — **Lucid dreaming.** The angled deck tilts the reader slightly off balance before the body copy steadies them.