Designs On A Career: Double Major Benefits Hedrick
By Alex Graham
Lemke Ledger Staff
Hamilton Hedrick, a 2007 journalism and graphic design graduate, designs sections of newspaper and special publications for the Dallas Business Journal.
After moving back to Dallas, his hometown, and after a couple of months of unemployment, Hedrick applied to the Dallas Business Journal and started work there in April 2008.
“I design the paper that comes out weekly, but my main focus is the special publications that we put out every so often,” he said.
The 50-page special-interest editions profile what is going on in the Dallas community and include topics that relate to North Texas. The most recent – “Best places to work.”
While a student at the UA, Hedrick was involved in student media, including working at the Razorback yearbook and the Traveler. He designed the Lemke Ledger flag that is still being used by the department. And he designed numerous layouts for the 2008 award-winning yearbook. Of the yearbook awards, Hedrick received seven individual gold circle awards from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association for his design work, including his collaboration with co-editors Megan Garner and Shannon Sanders for first place in overall cover design.
His two bachelor degrees, journalism and graphic design, “interlock” to give him unique qualifications to work as a graphic designer at a newspaper, he said.
“I definitely think my experience in the journalism department helped me out. The stuff I created there was what got me my job in the first place,” Hedrick said.