The Poly Post
Bronco Guide
Overview
The Bronco Guide served as Cal Poly Pomona's primary editorial voice for student-life leadership and campus culture.
Program Type
Publication operations
Tools / Methods
Notion, Google Drive, Adobe InDesign, Zoom
Stakeholder
Graphic Designers, Creative Director, Editors, Writers, Marketing
Duration
6 Months
Objective
Brand System Establishment : Define an annual style guide and print standards to ensure a consistent visual voice across for 40 pages of content.
Production Lifecycle Management: Build a tracking system to monitor real-time progress of all content streams (illustrations, photography, editorial copy) from assignment through final delivery.
On-Time Print Delivery: Execute both digital and print editions through final production, meeting the 20,000-copy press deadline without quality degradation.
Constraint
Writers, editors, photographers, and illustrators operated on independent academic schedules, with varying skill levels, requiring centralized tracking to prevent cascading delays.
Hard press deadlines.
No formalized style guide existed prior to this engagement; visual consistency standards had to be designed from zero before any production could begin
Coordination & Execution
Implementations of Notion tracking to re-enforce
10 contributors coordinated simultaneously
Check-in weekly on staffed designers on progress and reporting monthly with creative director for milestones
Pre-press on layout of pages, ads and materials
Outcomes & Deliverables
Achieving 20,000 copy production deadline of 40-page print editoral
