American Illustration 35 / Book + slipcase + proverb
The book for the longstanding juried illustration competition released at the end of 2016. The book served as a love letter to a poison year fraught with the bubbled-over sociopolitical & economic tensions among citizens divested of power that have been around for centuries and finally tipped over.
Creative direction & design: MD
Art: Benjamin Marra
Artist book for LAY—OUT Press
3 color silkscreened cover printed by Heavy Gel
44 pages / Digital offset printing by SmartPress
Bound By Miller Sherwood in Burbank
First edition 2023
Cover illustration; The Virginia Quarterly Review. Winter 2022-2023. Vol. 98, Number 4.
The full list of written contributions to the issue is outlined here.
Book Jacket / Simon & Schuster
Book jacket / Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Book cover; New Directions
Book cover; New Directions
Book cover; W.W. Norton
Art direction: Sarahmay Wilkinson
Scribner
Art direction: Jaya Miceli
Little, Brown
Book cover; W.W. Norton
Art direction: Sarahmay Wilkinson
Book cover; New Directions
Art direction: Erik Rieselbach
New Directions
Art direction: Erik Rieselbach
New Directions
Art direction: Erik Rieselbach
Poetry Foundation / I erase you. You are erased.
Idea Vilariño, whose poems served as ongoing inquiries into her full-tilt affair with Juan Carlos Onetti and resistance to Uruguayan dictatorship in the early/mid '70's.
New Directions
Art direction: Erik Rieselbach
Poster for Poster House and Print Mag’s #CombatCovid campaign.
The full scope of the project can be seen here.
The New York Times Magazine / Cover + Opener illustrations
Art direction + Type: Gail Bichler
The New York Times Book Review / Photo-illustration of Robert Caro through the decades.
W.W. Norton
Art direction: Ingsu Liu
The New York Times Magazine / Cover + Opener illustrations
AD: Gail Bichler / Design: Rachel Willey
Hogarth
Art direction: Christopher Brand
Verso Books
Art direction: Andy Pressman
Soft Skull Press
Art direction: Kelly Winton
The New York Times Magazine / Cover illustration
Art direction: Najeebah Al-Ghadban
Süddeutsche Zeitung / Fiction issue 2019: Schwarkes Vögel. The story was a recollection of the young narrator’s work as a caretaker for a gruff client with aggressive macaws who governed his home.
Oh-So Magazine / Skateboarders, competition and mental block
AD: Rob Hewitt
FSG
Art direction: Na Kim
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Art direction: Na Kim
Soft Skull Press
Art direction: Kelly Winton
The New York Times Magazine / Cover illustration
Art director: Gail Bichler
W.W. Norton
Art direction: Sarahmay Wilkinson
Verso Books
AD: Melissa Weiss
Cover photo courtesy of Luis C. Garza, a longtime photographer for La Raza; wherein he captured youth from the Florencia barrio of South Central L.A. arriving at Belvedere Park for La Marcha Por La Justica.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Art direction: Rodrigo Corral
The New Yorker: Whiskey and Ink
Gary Greenberg on Leslie Jamison's The Recovering and what the literature of alcoholism suggests about the nature of addiction.
Art direction: Nico Schweizer
Viking
Art direction: Jason Ramirez
The New York Times A1 Graphic - 10/3/18
Document composite showcasing a sliver of the 100,000 pages of records, including confidential tax returns, revealing the degree to which Donald Trump benefitted from the wealth of his father.
ADs: Tom Bodkin, Kelly Doe, Fred Bierman, Wayne Kamidoi & Andrew Sondern
Restless Books
The New Yorker / Alex Ross on Bach: The composer has long been seen as a symbol of divine order. But his music has an unruly obsession with God.
Art direction: Chris Curry
Simon and Schuster
Art direction: Jackie Seow
The New York Times Magazine / Cover illustration
Art direction: Ben Grandgenett
The New York Times Magazine
How the appetite for emojis complicates Unicode's effort to standardize the world's alphabets.
Art direction: Gail Bichler
Scribner
Art direction: Jaya Miceli
The New York Times Magazine / Letter of Recommendation: 'Shark Tank'
Art direction: Ben Grandgenett
On the merits of the show Shark Tank and its recasting of capitalism in its most idealistic light.
The New York Times Magazine
Art direction: Ben Grandgennet
On the merits of screaming—with particular regard to the quality in which it's deployed by Prince on Darling Nikki. Very challenging to argue against.
W.W. Norton
Art direction: Steve Attardo
Viking
Art direction: Paul Buckley
Photo: Godlis
The New York Times Magazine
Art direction: Jason Sfetko
The New York Times Magazine
"How the political climate has changed the pressures on players, coaches and others to speak out or be silent."
Art direction: Ben Grandgenett
Crown
Art direction: Christopher Brand
Penguin / Riverhead
Trio of book covers for Jon Ronson — The Psychopath Test, Lost At Sea + So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Art direction: Helen Yentus
The New York Times Book Review
George Prochnik and Frederick Crews are uncharitable to Sigmund Freud. On Crews' book: Freud - The Making of an Illusion
The New York Times Book Review / Cover illustration
Scribner
Art direction: Jaya Miceli
Soft Skull Press
Art direction: Kelly Winton
The New York Times Magazine
"A new wave of analysts want to do away with contrived narratives. But if not for the stories, why watch?"
Art direction: Ben Grandgenett
The New York Times Magazine
Art direction: Jason Sfetko
The New York Times Magazine
Art direction: Raul Aguila / Arem Duplessis
The New York Times Magazine
Art direction: Frank Augugliaro
The New York Times Magazine
Art direction: Caleb Bennett
The New York Times Book Review
Art direction: Nicholas Blechman
The New Yorker
Malcolm Gladwell - What Social Scientists Learned From Katrina: Many Katrina victims left New Orleans for good. What can we learn from them?
Art direction: Chris Curry
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Art direction: Rodrigo Corral
Drawings: Matthew Kramer
This American Life / NPR / PRI
Logo for the investigative journalism podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig. A brief interview about the execution of the mark can be read here (via Wired).
The New York Times Magazine
Art direction: Gail Bichler / Kimberly Sutherland
The Atlantic
Art direction: Darhil Crooks
The New Yorker / Fiction
Art direction: Chris Curry
The New York Times Book Review
Art direction: Nicholas Blechman
The New York Times Book Review
Art direction: Nicholas Blechman
The New York Times Book Review
Essay on JFK's inscrutability by Jill Abramson
Art direction: Nicholas Blechman
W.W. Norton
Art direction: Chin-Yee Lai
The New York Times Book Review
Art direction: Nicholas Blechman
The New York Times Book Review
Art direction: Nicholas Blechman
Wired
Art direction: Caleb Bennett
Neon construction: Todd Sanders/Roadhouse Relics
Photography: Matt Rainwaters
The Atlantic
Art direction: Darhil Crooks
Penguin Press
Art direction: Darren Haggar
Maxim / Typographic essay by David Copperfield
Art direction: David Zamdzer
The New York Times Magazine
Art direction: Drea Zlanabitnig, Arem Duplessis
The New York Times Magazine
Art direction: Gail Bichler
The New York Times Magazine
Art direction: Arem Duplessis
Soft Skull Press
Art direction: Kelly Winton
Penguin / Currents
Art direction: Jaya Miceli
The New York Times / Op-Ed
WHYY / NPR
Re-vamped mark and signage for a public hero. Shepherded graciously by producers Molly Seavy-Nesper and Danny Miller
Vintage/Anchor Books
Art direction: John Gall
Vintage/Anchor books
Art direction: John Gall
Penguin
Art direction: Roseanne Serra
The New York Times Magazine / Illustration
Art direction: Caleb Bennett
Pantheon
Art direction: Peter Mendelsund
Pantheon / Alain de Botton
Art direction: Peter Mendelsund
Penguin
Art direction: Paul Buckley
The New York Times Book Review
Art direction: Nicholas Blechman
The New York Times Book Review
Art direction: Rex Bonomelli
NY Times Science / Natalie Angier on alternate infinities
Art direction: Peter Morance
Verso
Art direction: Rumors
The New York Times / Sunday Review
Art direction: Aviva Michaelov
The New York Times / Sunday Review
Art direction: Aviva Michaelov
