Magazine design and art direction
These designs were commissioned by Douglas Stivison, then-editor of The Living Pulpit magazine. I was responsible for the concept, art direction, design, and photo research. For "the Word" cover, one of my favorites, I purchased parchment paper, scanned it, colorized it, found the fonts for the calligraphy and crosses, then typeset, colorized, and styled the typography.
Small Press magazine was a trade magazine with a big heart. I was founding art director, and I absolutely adored working on this project. I commissioned legendary fine artists and illustrators to create original artwork for the covers. I gave them no direction. They could do whatever they wanted. The results continue to astonish me. A great benefit of this project was learning who the greatest wood block artists of our time are.
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Barry Moser
Leonard Baskin
Michael McCurdy
James Grashow
Your Company was a magazine that I art directed and redesigned for Time Inc. The wonderful logo design was done by WBMG. I hired some great illustrators to create cover art including Ward Sutton, Mark Ulriksen, and William Duke.
Fortune Small Business (FSB) was a rebranding of Your Company magazine. I created a comprehensive redesign that included a newsstand launch. It was an exciting achievement for me, and I worked with some great people across Time Inc. We had great photographers, and extraordinary illustrators including Matt Mahurin, create cover art for us. I also commissioned the superb designer, typographer, and educator Gail Anderson to create a typographic cover for The Big Idea Issue.
Matt Mahurin
eCompany magazine prototypes for Time Inc.
Channels magazine, owned by Norman Lear, was one of the most fun magazines I have worked on, largely due to my editor, Merrill Brown who gave me a lot of creative freedom. I commissioned all of the photography and attended many of the cover shoots. Quite obviously, this was a male-dominated industry. There is also a terrific cover here by the great infographic artist, Nigel Holmes, and another great cover illustration by Robert Risko. We were nominated in the General Excellence category for the prestigious National Magazine Awards.
Personal Computing was the leading computer magazine of it's day that was headed by editor Chuck Martin. We had a really fine staff with lots of passion. I created a comprehensive redesign and was art director. We were nominated for General Excellence by the prestigious National Magazine Awards.
