The New York Times Magazine

2008-2010

Two years of freelance design at the New York Times Magazine

Over two years as a freelance designer at The New York Times Magazine and T: The New York Times Style Magazine, I worked across feature stories, covers, department pages, and special issues. The special issues were consistently the most interesting work, each one an opportunity to build a distinct visual world within the magazine's framework.

The cover above was for a story on international Supreme Court rulings. An illustration option had been developed but wasn't working, and on the day the issue needed to go to press I was asked to work on backup options. The concept came quickly, as it had to! Construct a globe from a grid of color tiles, then have the copy department provide relevant phrases and words to populate the color fields on the globe.

Ch. 1

Screens Special Issue

date 2008

The iPhone had come out two years prior, the iPad was not to come out until 2010.

I pixelated the Masthead, RGB was a theme.

One of my favorite expressions of the issue was the Table of Contents, I proposed we represent some famous screens and ratios in black rectangles, and scale them appropriately, the first page was the largest known screens with one screen carrying over to the next page to transfer the scale. From the Godzillatron all the way down to the iPod Nano.

The screen ratios were then used throughout the 'feature well' of the issue as title cards.

Ch. 2

RISK misManagement

date 2009

Illustration by Zohar Lazar

I worked on the cover and feature spreads for this issue over the holidays of 2008, inspiration for the type treatment came late on this one, but the simple and juxtaposed type expression and incredible collection of illustrations really helped to illustrate the story.