A Christmas Gift to You from The Blueprint Cover
A Christmas Gift to You from The Blueprint Cover
The Blueprint | Volume 32, Issue 3
December 13th, 2024
This cover depicts a Christmas-themed Benny the Bomber alongside students celebrating Christmas at a football game together. The cover has an overall red color scheme and has article ads reminiscent of Christmas cards.
Status: Available
Seen on page 1 of Volume 32, Issue 3 of The Blueprint
Crew
Designer
Logan Bauer
Photos
Brad Wilkens
Editors
Logan Bauer
Grayson Beckham
Jake Dougherty
Featuring
Benny the Bomber
Made using Adobe Photoshop 2024 and Adobe InDesign 2024.
© 2024 Logan Bauer. All rights reserved.
© 2024 L.A.B. Productions. All rights reserved.
© 2024 The Blueprint / Saint Xavier High School. All rights reserved.
© 2024 LAB Media. All rights reserved.
Gallery
The cover, as printed
The photo used at the bottom of the cover
The photo of Benny the Bomber used on the cover
The image used as the backdrop of the cover without any foreground elements
The same photo, with no red background
The image used to promote the issue, which released on the Blueprint Instagram on December 11th
Trivia
This issue coincides with Ryan Sams' 18th birthday, and the Birthday Bash.
The cover features different people that have ties to the website, such as Logan Bauer, Nick Kroger, Brendan Beluan, and George Bradbury. The top photo of Benny the Bomber was taken at the November 8th, 2024 St. X football game against Winton Woods, and the bottom photo of the students was taken at the November 15th, 2024 St. X football game against Lakota West. Not long after the photo was taken, Logan Bauer was concussed there.
The articles A Third-Party View of the Two-Party System: An Interview with Kyle Dupler (2024) and Letters to Santa (2024) are featured on the cover as advertisements.
The photo choice for the "Best Christmas Songs" article is a clear homage to All I Want for Christmas is the Blueprint Cover (2023).
The name and ad at the bottom come from the album "A Christmas Gift to You from Phil Spector." One potential idea for the cover was to have all the editors recreate that image.