Magazine Design & Editorial Art Direction
Led redesigns, editorial system development, and publication mergers across five nationally distributed magazines. Produced 250+ issues, 200+ covers, and 23 national awards, including 21 Gold Awards.
Editorial Systems, Redesigns & Mergers
Five publication transformations, including two major magazine mergers, resulting in 21 Gold and 2 Silver Parents' Choice Awards.
DIG Into History
250+ issues • 200+ covers • 21 Gold Awards
Publication Merger & Redesign
Following a publication merger, DIG required a unified editorial system that preserved audience familiarity while modernizing navigation, feature design, and reader engagement. The redesign established a cohesive visual identity across covers, departments, and recurring content.
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Reorganized navigation, department hierarchy, and recurring content structures to create a clearer reader experience and support the publication merger.
Editorial Identity Refresh
Editorial System Redesign
Department Architecture
Developed new department frameworks and recurring content formats that unified both publications while improving consistency and reader engagement.
Feature Design System
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Reorganized navigation, department hierarchy, and recurring content structure to create a clearer reader experience and support the publication merger.
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Reimagined feature storytelling through dynamic typography, immersive imagery, and flexible layouts that increased visual impact and readability.
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MUSE Magazine Redesign
Publication Merger & Redesign
Following a publication merger, MUSE required a complete redesign that unified multiple editorial systems into a single visual identity. The redesign modernized the cover strategy, feature architecture, department structure, and reader navigation while preserving the magazine's educational mission.
Editorial Identity Refresh
Modernized the cover system through stronger visual hierarchy, expanded imagery, and a more contemporary masthead treatment designed to increase engagement and improve shelf impact.
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Editorial System Redesign
Rebuilt the table of contents, navigation, and editorial architecture to improve content discovery while establishing a clearer visual hierarchy across departments and features.
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Feature Design System
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Developed a flexible feature framework that supported photography, illustration, and custom art direction while creating more immersive storytelling experiences.
Art-Directed Illustration
System Applied Across Diverse Editorial Topics
Commissioned Artist Collaboration
Conceptual Typography & Visual Storytelling
Applied the redesigned feature system across science, culture, history, and current events through art-directed illustration, commissioned artwork, and concept-driven visual storytelling.
Department Architecture
Standardized recurring departments through consistent layouts, navigation cues, and visual frameworks that improved usability while allowing for varied content themes.
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Information Design & Infographics
Transforming Complex Information into Visual Stories
Role: Art Direction • Editorial Design • Information Design • Illustration Direction • Publication Design
Over a decade of experience creating infographics, timelines, diagrams, and educational features that transform science, history, technology, and culture into engaging visual narratives for young audiences.
Animals in Space
Role: Information Design • Visual Storytelling
E.O. Wilson Timeline
Single-Stream Recycling
Role: Art Direction • Editorial Design
Role: Information Design • Editorial Illustration • Timeline Design
Where's the Water?
Role: Data Visualization • Editorial Design
Designed a two-part infographic tracing the history of animals in spaceflight, combining editorial illustration, timeline design, and educational storytelling.
Created a nontraditional biographical timeline that transforms a scientific career into an immersive visual journey.
Art directed a complex environmental process into an accessible, child-friendly infographic experience.
Designed a large-scale data visualization exploring the search for water across the solar system.
Audience Participation Through Design
Created editorial experiences that transformed readers from passive consumers into active contributors. Through interactive covers, doodle-based learning activities, and creative challenges, readers became active participants in the magazine experience—submitting original artwork, contributing ideas, and engaging more deeply with educational content.
Original Cover Distributed to Readers
Designed to be completed, customized, and reimagined by the audience.
Reader-Created Cover Designs
Hundreds of reader submissions were received and selected artwork was featured in the magazine.
By distributing a blank cover, The Boredom Issue turned readers into contributors, transforming the magazine itself into a platform for creativity and self-expression.
— Editorial Engagement Strategy
Muse Magazine — The Boredom Issue
Brynn Koval , 13
Stella Buchheister, 11
Ella Thompson, 12
River Shields, 10
Custom Art Direction
Art-directed and commissioned a doodle illustrator to develop a notebook-inspired visual language that transformed the feature into an immersive educational experience.
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Leading art direction, editorial design, and educational publishing initiatives.
Designed and art directed award-winning magazines, special editions, and educational publications.
Created cover concepts and visual systems for national educational publications.
21 Gold Awards and 2 Silver Awards
Years Leading Art Direction
MAGAZINE ISSUES
MAGAZINE COVERS
PARENTS' CHOICE AWARDS
Award-Winning Editorial Leadership
Every publication I art directed earned Parents' Choice recognition, including Gold Awards following both publication merger redesigns.
During my 12-year tenure, the magazines under my leadership earned 21 Gold Awards and 2 Silver Awards across five nationally distributed publications.
Additional honors from NAPPA, Mom's Choice Awards, Academics' Choice, Parenting Media Association, and the Association of Educational Publishers.