Alumni magazine design
An alumni magazine has to work across sixty years of readership at once — a recent leaver and someone who graduated in 1968 opening the same issue. It also has to carry class notes, which are the most-read and least-designed pages in the whole publication.
Archive photography is usually part of the job: scans of varying quality, uncredited prints, and a handful of genuinely good images that deserve a full page. Deciding which is which is most of the work.
Photograph above is a stock image of magazines in general, not our work. Our own issues are in the portfolio. See the work.
- Usually
- 32–60 pages
- Price
- Starts $1,600 onwards
- Usually bought by
- Development, advancement and alumni relations offices
What the price covers
- Cover and issue system spanning features and departments
- Class notes pages designed for density and legibility
- Archive image restoration within reason — dust, cast, contrast
- In memoriam and donor recognition pages handled with care
- Print-ready PDF, web-optimised PDF, and social cover images
Every project is quoted before it starts. Prices are per issue, in US dollars, and include two rounds of revisions.
Questions we get asked
- Our archive scans are poor. Can they be used?
- Often, yes. We can correct cast, contrast and dust, and we will scale an image to the size it can actually carry. What cannot be fixed is resolution that was never captured — we will tell you which images to re-scan.
- Class notes run to thousands of words. How is that handled?
- As its own designed system: a tighter grid, a smaller type size that is still comfortable, and clear year markers so a reader finds their cohort in seconds. It is treated as a feature of the magazine, not an appendix.
Tell us what you want to publish.
Tell us the format, roughly how many pages, and when you need it. We come back with a fixed quote and a date.