My experience includes designing my own magazines like in my capstone, but also one that focuses on pollinators in Colorado in my Visual Communication in the Sciences class. I was taught how to accurately convey scientific information using graphic design elements and text. We worked with our biochemistry professor, as well as three of my graphic design professors. Other students were from a scientific background, so we learned different elements of information and art with each other. Our “Protect Pollinators” magazine includes interactive elements such as a fold out monarch butterfly, bat, and a coloring page. I made a majority of the illustrations that center around butterflies and plants. Our intended audience is middle schoolers because of how we present introductory qualitative data about pollinators. My classmate, Sydney, researched the science behind pollinators such as bumblebees and sketched them by hand. My other classmate, Adele, and I image retraced her drawings so we could color them in. Then, I made the layout with the type, illustrations, and printed out a butterfly and bat using thicker poster paper. To bind the magazine, I used a stapler.
