Toyon: Seven Decades of Student Driven Publishing
implored future editors to take more art into consideration and push the limits of format, layout, and graphic design to include art that reflects the written work. “We want to leave some advice for the editors that will follow us. One of the first things we did as Editor was to go to the Library Archives and look up the previous issues of TOYON. Perusing them was a bore. Page after page was filled with print alone, and generally the graphic work was segregated from the literary work. Where graphics appeared in conjunction with the written work, they were usually unrelated. A superficial unVolume 21, 1975 derstanding of the photo offset printing process yields the information that any line art work (any work done in black and white only, with no gray) can be pasted on the page to be photographed at the same time as the written copy at no extra cost. We decided that this unused potential could be best exploited by assigning literary work to artists for illustration, with the artist drawing the artwork to the requirements of a specific poem or prose work. We also determined to illuminate every page of the magazine this way. Along with this revolutionary (for TOYON) procedure, we
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