marian high school
ILLUSTRATION / LAYOUT DESIGN / PRINT DESIGN / BRAND IDENTITY
My work with Marian High School, and all-girls preparatory school based in Omaha, Nebraska.
CURRICULUM GUIDES
In early 2021, I was approached by the Registrar to help update their curriculum guide, a yearly publication that helped current and incoming students decide on classes for the next school year. In collaboration with the Registrar and Assistant Principal, we were able to create a unique, branded guide that students wanted to keep long-term.
After the 2021 guide (top), I rearranged my initial layout design to fit in more classes and ideally get print costs down. Even with over 30 pages of additional content, the 2022 guide was still shorter than the 2021 guide.
I also gained access to Marian’s brand guide after the 2021 edition of the curriculum guide was finished. For the 2021 guide, I followed the fonts and colors available on the web and through Google Fonts. The 2022 guide (bottom) reflects Marian’s actual brand fonts, colors, and typography.
Read the most recent issues of the guide on Marian’s website.
Each cover includes an illustration made by myself, featuring a different part of campus. I chose to go the brightly colored, illustrative route for the covers as a nod to the old iterations of the guide. In years past, the Registrar would print the guides on the school printer in black and white, while the only pop of color would be whatever cardstock was chosen for the cover.
RECRUITMENT BOXES
To celebrate their acceptance into Marian, potential students are gifted an acceptance box. Each box contains merch items and instructions for registering officially for Marian. I’ve had the honor of working on two Marian acceptance boxes, developing on themes for both and designing class-specific stickers, merch, and box designs.
After getting some initial direction of socks being the merch item and the primary tagline being “Every Journey Starts with a Single Step”, I built out a few design concepts around the idea of travel. The winning theme was inspired by camping aesthetics - I tied this in through a camp-inspired pennant for the class design, and by turning the box into a map of the
entire campus.
Before leaning into a “themed” box, the first Marian box I worked on was a more core-branded design, with the main direction being a class of ‘28 heart for the primary logo. Other assets included a tshirt and a confetti popper, with instructions on the box to share a video and tag @be.marian on Instagram with the final result.
MARIAN MAGAZINE
After completing my first curriculum guide with student services in 2021, I was asked by Marian’s Marketing & Communications Director to help design the summer 2021 issue of the Marian Magazine, a publication primarily geared towards alumni and donors. As of March 2025, I’ve designed over six issues.
To read all the magazines, click here.
CLASS OF 2028 POSTCARD
Each summer, Marian’s junior class welcomes their little sisters, the incoming freshman class, with welcome events on campus. I designed a postcard that was both informational and memorable, with a vintage travel postcard-inspired front.
SUCCESS BRANDING
In 2021, the student services department received a $250,000 donation intended to help the department support students’ social and emotional well-being. With the positive momentum built off the boost in funding, the Assistant Principal decided to create a program that encompasses these and other initiatives of the department - the SUCCESS program. In the fall of 2022, it was announced the department would officially be renamed the SUCCESS program.
I worked alongside the Assistant Principal and Registrar to create a visual brand for this new program, along with a new mural outside of Student Services, an update to the Student Services section of the website, and print materials for Open House and other recruitment events.
VIC Magazine
In the fall of 2022, Marian’s student shadow program went through a rebrand, becoming the VIC (Very Important Crusader) day. As a part of the program refresh, I worked with Marian’s Marketing & Communications Director to update the existing shadow guide, a small booklet with a mix of helpful information and fun activities to keep prospective students busy when the Marian girl they’re shadowing is busy in class.
