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Faith Zhao, Creative Director
May 1, 2026

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Wolstencroft’s choices about the emotions in the graphics were intentional. She said, “I tried to make the expressions neutral because I wanted to show the struggle of assessments, but not overdo it with the suffering.”
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Graphic Artist Wolstencroft shared about her process making this graphic: “I used an app called Procreate. The first thing I did was manually remove the background from all of the [movie] posters [featured in this article]. Then I decided which color scheme I liked best...and I used gradient maps to get the colors to be uniform. I [also] added some extra shading and a background, and it was done.”
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Faith Zhao
Faith Zhao, Creative Director
Hi I’m Faith, I’m a senior and I love threading together new insights about people, subjects and experiences through Spectrum. Other than my design work with Spectrum, I am creating a feature magazine about Special Olympics for my senior project. Outside of school, I am an avid golfer with really bad tan lines.