Our #bestofdenver cover illustrator Alejandro Rodriguez-Gomez seeing his illustration in print for the first time 🙌 Rodriguez is a mechanical engineering student at cudenver and does art on the side. 🎨 We held a contest with the University of Colorado Denver to have their students submit designs for our cover. We wanted their view of the city, with cows not required, but welcome. (That’s a symbol we’ve used for more than four decades, since the days when Denver boosters were paranoid about this city being labeled a cowtown.)The contest closed at the end of January, and in early February, we opened the best package ever, filled with 25 entries. Then we voted on what would be our cover! Many of the runner ups became section openers as well. Congratulations Alejandro! Stay tuned for a full video on how he designed this year’s cover. 🎥 #denver #denverco #denvercolorado #westword #bigbluebear #coloradoconventioncenter #colorado