About The Cover:
To showcase student artwork in this issue of FOCUS, the magazine's editorial board turned to three artists enrolled in ART323: Visual Communication III to design the cover. Working independently on the class assignment, the students presented three highly creative - and very different - designs. To see larger images of the proposed covers, click the thumbnails in the student profiles below.
"I started by defining words that were related to the fine arts: music, theatre and art. From there, I sketched images that I felt represented all three and came up with the guitar (music), the drama mask (theatre), and the paintbrush (art). The cover became a unique pseudo-guitar that is meant to represent all of the fine arts in the liberal arts."
-Jennifer Francis '06
"I wanted to create a cover that incorporated all three divisions of art. The grid is a conservative design that I thought would match the feel of FOCUS well. I used mainly PhotoShop, and I believe that working with the grid was my greatest learning experience."
-Jennifer Lange '05
"This 'creative juices' concept focused on the driving force behind the fine arts. Most people think of a paintbrush, theatre masks and a music note when imagining things to represent the fine arts. This design went deeper - to what actually enables us to create, act and perform . Everyone has creative juices, and the fine arts are what bring these juices to life."
-Stephanie Zilles '07
