In 2015, I was brought into Mandarin Communications Group by a former classmate from SAIC. During my time at the company, I was entrusted with designing the layout for the main lifestyle and business publication, Mandarin Quarterly. The publication provides interesting content for the Chinese-American community in Chicago, New York, and San Francisco.

Lifestyle and business Briefs

The first thing that I had to do before coming up with an actual design for this was to create an elaborate grid system. A grid system is important in any kind of publication, especially something like this magazine, where pages should try and look cohesive despite the content. It's also helpful when there is a lot of information to input. Once a grid system was established, it was a matter of fitting the information in and then making them all align and creating cohesion. Hierarchy also plays a large role in the creation of these pages, especially if the institutions or products that we are introducing are gracious enough to provide us with aesthetically pleasing imagery. 

Fashion Entrepreneurs Spreads