“The 2024 NYC Pride Guide is here! Nationally-recognized as the largest Pride-focused magazine in the nation! Explore the hottest events, immerse yourself in all things Pride, and unlock exclusive access to the celebration of love, diversity, and community!”<br>A 102-page solo-designed/published periodical now living properly at the NYC Pride address at the end of this description, The NYC Pride Guide is the requisite guide to all things Pride in New York City. Behind the design, there were many creative challenges, from starting at zero for prior year’s content/dummy files, to the inability to have a proper photoshoot in studio to compose the cover art and interior shots of the Grand Marshals for 2024. With that consideration, I had to get granular with creating a dreamline, reflective, empowered environment composed of numerous enhanced and retouched headshots from the lowest to the highest quality. Many instances required a full press of not only colour-adjusting the Grand Marshals into the same colour space, but completely compositing body parts, missing hair, full bodies and creating Pride-themed multi-coloured attire for each individual GM using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Firefly AI.<br>Beyond that, everything else was just a series of creative layout decisions in attempt to give a household name nod to publications such as Vogue, Bazaar and Vanity Fair, using serif fonts and juxtaposing scale and weight of the NYC Pride font Gotham.