Libby Burke’s hand-printed T-shirt designs include stalks of broccoli and dogs in capes. After doodling extensively in notebooks, the fourth-year political science student said she decided to transition into the more skill-oriented medium of T-shirt printing. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year political science student Libby Burke began stamping her designs on T-shirts during the summer of 2017, and she now sells them at her online store, Ides. The company’s website features designs like her “U Can Learn A lot” design, her most popular pattern and a nod to her education at UCLA. (Joe Akira/Daily Bruin)

Kashima-Shinryu equips its practitioners with skills to face off against cavalrymen and giant savage boars. However, since giant boars rarely terrorize UCLA students on their daily commutes to class, some practitioners on campus have found other uses for the Japanese martial art. Read more...

Photo: Professor William Bodiford and third-year civil and environmental engineering student Sidney Poon practice with leather-covered wood swords known as fukuro shinai. The Kashima-Shinryu Club at UCLA meets to refine and perfect combat techniques of the 500-year-old Japanese martial art. (Photos by Alexandra Del Rosario/Daily Bruin Photo illustration by Amy Dixon/Assistant Photo editor)

Nico Young’s after-school skate session ended up on the cover of The New York Times Magazine. In 2016, the first-year art student’s high school photography teacher sent his photo essay project, which centered around his two friend groups, to The New York Times’ photo editors. Read more...

Photo: Nico Young, a first-year art student, said his favorite art medium is photography. When Young was in high school, he published a 12-page spread with The New York Times Magazine about life in high school through a high school student’s point of view. He then published is own photography book titled “Fire at School.” (Bilal Ismail Ahmed/Daily Bruin senior staff)