During my time as a UCSB undergrad, I've been fortunate enough to experience a variety of editorial work. During the summer before my freshman year I began at the Daily Nexus as an illustrator before becoming Art Director. That first year as an artist I learned about the most effective ways to communicate ideas through images, and what types of leadership skills work best with artists. After working on the Nexus for two and a half years I joined Isla Vista's arts & culture magazine: WORD. There I learned how to collaborate in group projects and to realize and share a vision. There, I met talented writers, photographers and designers who I brought into my largest project out of these four years: The Catalyst Literary Arts Magazine.
The Catalyst
The Catalyst is a unique student-run collective that produces an interdisciplinary design & writing course, music and arts related community events, an online blog, and a submission-based free quarterly publication open to all UCSB students. The magazine features both submitted and commissioned original student art, writing, and collaborative projects.
Read issues 1-5 online: The Catalyst Literary Arts Magazine or view press coverage for Catalyst.
In the nature of the project, we raised our own funds through grassroots campaigning as a creative alternative to repeatedly asking student finance boards for funding. We just recently had a successful kickstarter campaign which raised $10,223 for printing next year! Find out more about our campaign and our message by watching this video.
Take a look. All original student art & writing.
Here's Ali with her first published story. I couldn't wait to get my hands on this piece.
Photographer Lorenzo Basilio always knows what to look for.
Distributing Issue 3, my personal favorite at our first event of last year.