is a student magazine showcasing the visual arts at Northwest College. The magazine is completely produced by students. A typical staff includes students from various disciplines: fine art, photography, graphic design, graphic arts pre-press, print production, and journalism.

Visualize This is a cousin of a previously published student magazine, Visual Eyes•Verbalize, a literary/art magazine produced for seven years at the College.

Each year, submissions to Visualize This are in the form of paintings, sculpture, digital images, photographic prints and transparencies. A panel of judges selects the final works for publication. Following judging, graphic design students submit layout concepts. After revisions and votes by the staff, a final design evolves. Photography students photographed most of the original artwork using 4x5, 35 mm, Polaroid, and digital cameras in the “Dietrich” photo studio. Pre-press students use a variety of scanners including Nikon Coolscan III and Imacon Flextight Precision II to convert transmissive and reflective art. All images are scanned at 350 samples per inch and output as 175-line halftones. Another group of pre-press students size, convert, color correct, and make dot gain allowances in all images. Photoshop, along with QuarkXPress or InDesign are used extensively by the design students in the layout and production of the magazine.

Master signature impositions are developed and paginated in the proper position for film output to a Scitex Dolev 400 Imagesetter. Films were stripped and exposed to plates.

Visualize This is printed on a single color Heidlberg SORD press. Interior pages are printed on 23'x35' 100# Lustro Gloss, and the cover is printed on 19'x25' Lustro Gloss 80# cover.

Magazine copies are available from the Northwest College Bookstore for $5.00 each. Call 800-560-4NWC (ask for Bookstore) or 307-754-6308.