New Spirit – A Publication of Spirit Square; October 1992

“New Spirit” is a former newsletter from the Spirit Square Center for the Arts that was meant to highlight all of their upcoming events for the month. The publication lives up to its claim of being a home for “all the arts,” as it includes information about music, movies, theater, dance, and visual arts.

The cover highlights guitarist Leo Kottke, and includes information about an upcoming concert below his picture. The picture is surrounded by graphic elements like dots and x’s, which was an appropriate style of design for the time. The elements nicely fill the negative space surrounding the picture and title without being distracting. The pink and dark purple color schemes connect the shapes to the picture, and the background is a contrasting tan/orange color, with important information highlighted with a bright orange to help it stand out more.

The sans serif and script font combo used on the title was a common, now often looked at as a nostalgic, style of type in the 1990s. There is a clear hierarchy on the cover as well as inside of the newsletter, which includes illustrative and graphic elements that complement the style of the front.