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Wanderer

Wanderer magazine is a collaborative project produced by visual communication and reporting students in the Journalism Program of the Communication Department, Columbia College Chicago. Visual communication students edited, designed and laid out each story as his or her final course project, and reporting students researched and wrote the stories, providing photography for them. Every issue showcases different topics.


FALL 2023

This issue of Wanderer magazine is a collaborative project produced by Visual Communication and People, Power & Narrative: Latino Voices students, both taught by Associate Professor Elio Leturia. The courses are offered in the Communication program, and the Columbia Experience program respectively, at Columbia College Chicago. Visual Communication students edited, designed and laid out each story as their final course project, and People, Power & Narrative students reported and wrote the stories providing photography for them. This issue is all about the diversity of Chicago-based Latino/Latina/Latinx artists.

Click the cover of the magazine to read it in virtual magazine form, or read the web versions of the articles here.

SPRING 2022

This issue of Wanderer magazine is a collaborative project produced by Visual Communication and People, Power & Narrative: Latino Voices students, both taught by Associate Professor Elio Leturia. The courses are offered in the Communication program, and the Columbia Experience program respectively, at Columbia College Chicago. Visual Communication students edited, designed and laid out each story as their final course project, and People, Power & Narrative students reported and wrote the stories providing photography for them. This issue is all about Latino issues and the use of the word Latinx. 

Click the cover of the magazine to read it in virtual magazine form, or read the web versions of the articles here.

WINTER 2019

This issue of Wanderer magazine is a collaborative project produced by Visual Communication and Travel Writing Peru students. Both courses are offered in the Journalism Program of the Communication Department, Columbia College Chicago. Prof. Elio Leturia’s Visual Communication students edited, designed and laid out each story as his or her final course project, and Prof. Elio Leturia’s Travel Writing Peru students reported and wrote the stories providing photography for them. This issue is the third magazine that publishes stories reported in Peru.

Click the cover of the magazine to read it in virtual magazine form, or read the web versions of the articles here.

Spring 2018

SPRING 2018

This issue of Wanderer magazine is a collaborative project produced by Visual Communication and Fashion Journalism students. Both courses are offered in the Journalism Program of the Communication Department, Columbia College Chicago. Prof. Elio Leturia’s Visual Communication students edited, designed and laid out each story as his or her final course project, and Prof. Rosalind Cummings-Yeates’ Fashion Journalism students reported and wrote the stories providing photography for them. This issue is all about the current trends in fashion.

Click the cover of the magazine to read it in virtual magazine form, or read the web versions of the articles here.

Opinion

  • Chicago’s influential music scene doesn’t get the respect it deserves 
    by Zoey Hill-Hernandez
  • Lost in translation: ‘I would see everyone else writing while I just stared blankly at my paper’
    by Cynthia Alaniz
  • ‘It felt like something was gnawing at my heart’; Columbia student copes with illness of a lifetime
    by Morgan Bruner
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Arts and Culture

  • 23 years later, Mazzy Star’s masterpiece album still casts a spell
    by Triniti Waxman
  • Queer Chicago designer finds niche dressing drag performers
    by Seng Xiong
  • From dorm room to mainstage, Phat Dragon built a comedy cult following 
    by Ava Simone Forster
  • Great Ideas of Humanity exhibit showcases famous quotes made visual 
    by Sh'Mara Chism
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Feature

  • Hairstylist helps clients embrace their own beauty, rather than copy someone else’s 
  • Care for Real food pantry serves North Siders as need grows 
  • Cuddle Bunny: Where visitors can chill out with a furry friend 
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