Acknowledgements

Editors: Josephine DeMarco and Jaqueline Cecil

The editors are the leaders of The Pendulum staff, overseeing all activity within the publication. The editors are chosen by the editors of the previous year, based on their demonstrated literary and artistic talent, as well as leadership skills. They work closely with the English and Art departments to seek out work for The Pendulum.

At the start of the school year, the editors encourage Upper School students to join The Pendulum staff by attending meetings, conceiving of an annual theme for the publication, and contributing their critique of submitted works. The editors host weekly meetings during which they facilitate discussions about art and written submissions. The editors record staff votes of approval and disapproval of each piece, considering its part in the final publication. Outside of meetings, the editors encourage the Upper School to participate in The Pendulum by submitting their work and promoting the club through the publication’s social media, which they curate. The social media promotes the bi-monthly contests the editors host based off of the magazine’s annual theme. Ultimately, the editors make the final decision of admission of work to the magazine.

Faculty Advisor for Literature: Dr. Marta

Napiorkowska

The faculty advisor for literature serve various roles. She sets a tone for what is “good,” analyzes literature, advises the staff about all written works, and promotes an environment conducive to constructive criticism. She also provide the staff with a variety of student works from classes.

Faculty Advisor for Art: Jeorge Yankura

The faculty advisor for art guides the staff on all visual matters. She facilitates discussion on the theme, lending an essential knowledge of how to create and translate our theme visually into our finished product. As a teacher of photography and digital design, she encourages her students to submit work, helping fill holes in the magazine that might otherwise be left empty. She is also extremely involved in the ultimate layout of the magazine, supervising and enabling its final development.

Technical Notes

The typeface used in this volume of The Pendulum include Playfair Display and Adobe Hebrew. Playfair Display Italic Bold and Playfair Display Italic are used for for headers, titles, author names, individual artwork attributions and page numbers. Adobe Hebrew Regular and Adobe Hebrew Italic are utilized for text bodies.

Playfair Display is a serif-style typeface from the Playfair Project, led by Claus Eggers Sørensen, and is inspired by both the Scotch Roman typefaces and similar designs of John Baskerville, both from the Eighteenth Century. First released in 2011, this typeface features relatively consistent vertical height in both capital and lower case letters, making it ideal for printed material. The bold bodily shape and delicate hairlines make this typeface easy on the eyes and attractive for the reader’s experience.

Adobe Hebrew was created in 2004-2005 by John Hudson of Tiro Typeworks. This serif-style typeface was specifically created for contemporary Hebrew business communications. The Pendulum staff was attracted to the shape and crisp nature of the letters in this type family, which allows for ease of readability by the viewer.

The Pendulum layout and design was created using Adobe InDesign from the 2023 version of the Adobe Creative Cloud. The Pendulum was printed with a Kodak NexPress ZX 3300 Digital Production Color Press at Impression Point Printing in Norwalk, Connecticut, by alumni parent Robert La Banca. It uses Enhanced Dry Ink that produces a consistently high image quality, providing vibrant colors, consistent spot color matching, smooth flat field and gradients, and the unique ability to match the ink gloss level to the substrate being printed. The paper used is Accent Opaque 80# for cover and text.