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PORTFOLIO 13

Editorial Design

Covers, publication systems and print production shaped through typography, sequencing, photography and disciplined craft.

CONCEPTUAL EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATION

Two ideas built vertically.

Editorial illustration works best when the image carries the thought before the caption has to explain it. These two tall compositions use scale, inversion and contained worlds to turn a simple page into a visual argument.

Got to Get In to Get Out conceptual editorial illustration with an inverted figure entering a martini glass
GOT TO GET IN TO GET OUT

Inside the glass

An upside-down figure disappears into the bowl of a martini glass, turning a familiar object into a visual paradox. The restrained palette and exaggerated scale let the concept do the talking.

Tall editorial illustration with a birdcage, desert landscape, skull, snake and a man looking in
EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATION

A landscape inside the cage

A man peers into a birdcage and finds an unexpected landscape within it. Colored pencil and acrylic washes create a contained world where observation and imagination occupy the same frame.

PUBLICATION & PRODUCTION

Systems around the image.

WIRE fashion magazine cover
MAGAZINE COVER

WIRE

Fashion photography, hand-drawn lettering and a tightly controlled cover hierarchy built around the child’s striped hat.

Breaking Boundaries typographic cover
COVER DESIGN

Breaking Boundaries

A typographic cover organized around crossing axes, scale shifts and the title literally breaking its expected boundary.

Greater Tucson Verizon Yellow Pages cover
DIRECTORY COVER

Greater Tucson

A regional publication cover using the Verizon system, local imagery and high-visibility color to create immediate recognition.

Golf editorial page
EDITORIAL PAGE

Golf Feature

Landscape photography and generous editorial space organized within the larger publication identity.

Bob Saint John reviewing publication proofs on press
PRINT PRODUCTION

On Press

Editorial design carried through proofing, color control and final production—not abandoned at the comp stage.