Ninth Letter

Ninth Letter is a collaborative arts and literary project produced by the Creative Writing Program and School of Art & Design at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 

The theme of this journal was based on transformation.  We also worked off the idea of Scantron exam sheets used during transformative times in student lives.  To go along with our test taking theme, we decided to move away from the computer and add handmade design elements such as pencil marks and other doodles. We also experimented with Spirographs to create glyphs for different title pages. The motifs in the stories and the visual identity work together and ask the reader to reflect on their own life experiences.

Issue 13.2 was designed under the art direction of Nan Goggin and Brock Landrum. I worked alongside Meadow Jones, Katie Gamble, Eric Pryor, Lemon Zhai, Jessica Chen, Anna Renken, and Mitchell Oliver throughout the design of the journal. 

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