These covers for World Literature Today span from 2018 to 2020, and my involvement in all of these includes art direction, typography, and design. I also directed the photoshoots for the covers with Margarita Engle, Edwidge Danticat, and Jenny Erpenbeck, and the illustrations for the Graphic Nonfiction and Hong Kong covers. The Music & Lit […]
Magazine
Magazine Design and Layout – World Literature Today
The following selections feature some of the editorial designs I did through the years as the art director for Word Literature Today. A hybrid literary journal and magazine, WLT balances between satisfying its longtime subscribers and attracting new readers who aren’t necessarily aficionados on what’s trending in international literature. I worked with the BEST editors […]
Music & Literature
My illustration for the cover of the September 2018 issue of World Literature Today. The visual pairs with the special section in this issue titled “Music & Lit.”
Editorial Design: Health for All
I designed this propaganda-style digital illustration to pair with the short story “Health for All” by Cuban science-fiction author Yoss. The intentional repetition of the poster alludes to the pervasive presence of an invasively controlling health campaign in this work of dystopian fiction. Yoss’s short story can be read in the November 2018 issue of World Literature Today.
Poetry Untethered
My illustration for the cover of the September 2011 issue of World Literature Today started from a doodle of a man walking with book stilts. The cover feature, “Poetry Untethered,” ended up with this final iteration of a person sitting and reading in the clouds.