These spreads were designed for Glass Mountain, a literary journal for the creative writing department at the University of Houston. The journal's name is inspired by a line from Donald Barthelme's short story "Glass Mountain". The Glass Mountain, a skyscraper like the many we have here in Houston, represents the achievement of what seemed impossible when the writing students first began laying plans for their journal. Glass Mountain gives new voices a place to be heard, on the printed page and at readings and gatherings.
In this project, we were asked to develop a graphic essay that considers flow and narrative from spread to spread. I based my theme on the word "construction" and combined collaged images I found in architectural magazines and my dad's undergrad architecture portfolio (handmade and xeroxed from the 80's!) I chose minimal language in order to tell a story while still holding onto some mystery. The viewer is left to form their own judgments based on the pictorial narrative.
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