THE PINION
The student-run newspaper of President William McKinley High School
During the fourth quarter of my freshman year, I spearheaded the work to design the last newspaper for the 2020 school year. I wanted to put something out and be an example to my fellow Tigers of how ambitious one can be to develop a quality product in times of struggle and isolation at home. Through close cooperation with my advisor and the ongoing process of sending revised InDesign files and receiving feedback convinced my advisor that I was willing to do more than what was expected and promoted me to an editor to remind me of my merits while I was a reporter for my school newspaper, before and during the pandemic.
KHK
Ka Hana Kaulana
The Celebrated Work
I left the newspaper staff my sophomore year due to scheduling conflicts where I could only take either band or Newswriting, and music was my passion since middle school so I chose band. Despite my notion, I continued to work with the advisor from the student newspaper through being a part of McKinley's literary magazine staff. The concept was pretty similar, but the job of the literary magazine is to display creative works from students which means that staffers concentrate on encouraging people to submit work while newspaper reporters have to write and publish their own work. The 2021 literary magazine was the file I actively designed on to make it look clean which won "Excellent" in the Recognizing Excellence in Art and Literary Magazines (REALM) contest.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Rebirth
With lessons learned from the coronavirus crisis, school can begin anew with a stronger education system. The wings were inspired by archival issues of The Pinion. Fun fact: pinion is a synonym for wing.
I drew this art so I could have an option of using it was the front cover of the last quarterly newspaper of the 2020 school year which, before, had a big red "CANCELED" stamp on it which was ugly and disheartening. I did not want the tradition of having a quarterly newspaper to break for The Pinion like how the McKinley band and orchestra program had lost most of their traditions as a result of the pandemic, so I drew something that could be an artifact to tell about the circumstance surrounding school worldwide to contribute to the historic product of the newspaper.
