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New Series: How'd They Do That? #1

New Series: How'd They Do That? #1

Now that our SPD-U Spotlight judges are looking through all your awesome work from the past year, let's bide our time till the winners are selected and announced by looking at some awesome work from some of our pros...

Today we introduce a new series on the blog called "How'd They Do That?". The idea is to give you some behind-the-scenes insight into how all those amazing magazine pages come to life. "Did they draw that themselves or hire an illustrator?" "Was that part of the actual photo shoot or retouched later?" "What's that font?" "How'd they come up with that idea?" Those are the questions we're looking to answer. If you see something cool out there in magazine-world, send us a note about it to SPDStudentOutreach@gmail.com and we'll try to dig into it and get you the scoop on how they made it happen.

To get us started, art directors Nancy Campbell and Trevett McCandliss share with us the process behind one of their recent fashion stories for 9Threads ...
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