Tusk
Directed a team of creatives guiding the lifestyle magazine’s creative vision, promotional strategy and audience engagement.
Shaped the visual identity, conceptual direction and storytelling experience of the issue: developing concepts, coordinating shoots, guiding layouts and designing individualized sets for each feature.
Coordinated events, branding campaigns and design production that strengthened the magazine’s visibility and identity across print and digital, from teaser reels to the cover reveal and the launch party at the Golleher Alumni House.
- Role
- Creative Director & Marketing Director
- Issue
- The 26th edition
- In print
- 2,000 printed and distributed copies
- Online
- tuskmag.com · @tuskmagazine
The 26th edition
The Fall ’25 Tusk staff
Creative Director & Marketing Director.
Directed a team of creatives guiding the lifestyle magazine’s creative vision, promotional strategy and audience engagement: developing concepts, coordinating shoots, guiding layouts, designing a set for every feature and running the launch campaign, through 2,000 printed and distributed copies.
The 26th edition, front and back
The covers, laid flat
Features
Students by Day, Bosses by Night
Advice Column- 03The Gender Divide in Gaming
- 04Riot GRRRL: Revolution Girl Style Now
Jon M. Chu: Finding the Truth Within Fictional Stories
Writing
- Tusk MagazineFeatureDecember 11, 2025Jon M. Chu: Finding the Truth Within Fictional Stories Written by Gregory Ferraro & Destiny Morris for Tusk MagazineRead at Tusk Magazine ↗
- Tusk MagazineFeatureDecember 11, 2025Students by Day, Bosses by Night Written by Gregory Ferraro for Tusk MagazineRead at Tusk Magazine ↗
The advice column
The advice column, on set
The models who answered readers’ questions in Tusk’s advice column, photographed on the set I designed for it.
Tusk Magazine · 2025
An individualized set built for Tusk’s advice column, where models answer readers’ questions on camera and in print.
For every Tusk feature I designed individualized sets and led the photo direction, using careful curation to create storytelling spaces that felt immersive and intentional rather than staged.
Shoots for Tusk
Raniel, for Tusk
A portrait story for Tusk with Raniel in the library stacks, a copy of “Filipino Americans” in hand.
Pin n Pig, for Tusk
A shoot for Tusk at Pin n Pig, set up on a tripod so I could step in front of the camera as well as behind it.
The Secret Life of Pets: Bailey
My dog Bailey, creative directed and photographed for Tusk.
Spicy Books, for Tusk
Shot for Tusk, with me in front of the camera this time.
Jon M. Chu, for Tusk
“The best cinema, the best stories, are when they’re trying to find the truth.”
When Jon M. Chu visited Cal State Fullerton on Sept. 18, 2025, I interviewed him in front of a live audience for Tusk, and the conversation was featured on Titan TV. Destiny Morris and I wrote the feature together, two Wicked fans getting to hear from the director himself.
Jon M. Chu
Jon M. Chu at Beyond the Conversation, Cal State Fullerton, where I interviewed him in front of a live audience for Tusk Magazine.
Launch campaign
Tusk Magazine, 26th edition launch
The launch party at the Golleher Alumni House, Cal State Fullerton.
On the road
Tusk at the College Media Association Conference, New York
Tabling for Tusk
Tabling for Tusk at Cal State Fullerton, Nov. 18, 2025.
Experience CSUF
Tusk and ProComm meeting future Titans and sharing how student storytelling takes shape at Cal State Fullerton.
