I’ve assisted in the design and production of over a dozen magazines. Every art director can use an extra set of hands, and my specialty is interpreting and executing your creative vision. I’m quick, accurate, and excellent at reading minds.
CREDITS:
Creative Director Theresa Griggs
Design Director Tom O’Quinn
I was brought on to the airbnbmag launch team both for my skill as a production designer and my expertise in navigating the infrastructure at Hearst Magazines. I assisted with layout options, image processing, and the odd photo research assignment.
Photograph: The Collaborationist
I created this layout under the direction of the design director and shepherded it through edit rounds.
Photographs: Meredith Andrews
After a million revisions, many designers never want to revisit their old work, making templates a boring but important chore. I’ve created design templates for magazines such as Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, O, and Dr. Oz The Good Life. Whether you work best with fully-designed gray box pages, or more flexible layouts that leave room for experimentation, I build around your needs, and all I require are two or three reference pieces. Style sheets included.
CREDITS:
Creative Director Nicole Mazur
Design Director Wendy Robison
This Seventeen fashion section opener looked generally the same from month to month. Every text element on the page is styled using custom character and paragraph styles. As their redesign evolved, I updated their design templates.
Even a more complicated collage page such as this fashion roundup is templated. The designer started out with a page of gray boxes and lorem ipsum text blocks, and could duplicate and populate the elements as needed. At Seventeen, it was crucial that the designers adhered to the text styles since the magazine was participating in a Hearst pilot project for InDesign-to-XML automation. I helped design the workflow, and style sheets were an integral part of it.
It may be a dying art, but production is still an important part of any creative workflow. If you want to optimize your ability to focus on what you do best—that is, create—you need the support of a production manager. I can chase down art, negotiate with editors, and generally keep you from talking to anyone you don’t want to talk to. And when you’re ready to ship, I can preflight your work, answer press questions, and process digital editions.
CREDITS:
Creative Director Theresa Griggs
I performed quality control on this Cosmopolitan cover. After design and edit was complete, I set a double hit on the logo and bright yellow elements, making sure that all type on top was knocking out the Pantone underneath.
Cosmopolitan front-of-book pages had a dynamic and complicated design, from a production standpoint. When pages were ready to ship, it was my responsibility to ensure that all images were hi-res and color corrected, all clipping paths and shadows were activated properly, and type adhered to the creative director’s design specifications. Every now and then I also caught a stray typo or fact error.
At Hearst magazines, I was on a team that produced static and enhanced e-Reader editions. I helped design an InDesign-to-XML workflow that partially automated conversion of print layouts for iPhone.
For Clinique, I assisted in the production of social media assets for multiple beauty campaigns, including animated gifs and various iterations of images for different global markets and social media platforms.
