DECEMBER 2020
I had the immense privilege of working with sensitive and gentle portraits captured by the talented Julia Sellman. In this opening picture, Elea Aarse plays with a giraffe made of DNA strands. I subtly reflect the shape of DNA strands in the opening type with a mauve drawn from Elea's dress.
In the feature design, I keep the focus on Julia’s powerful images by keeping typographic flourishes to a minimum. Instead I create interest and movement through varying the grid.
MARCH 2021
I worked closely with photo director Luise Stauss to use Brendan Pattengale's other-worldly photographs of extreme environments to illustrate the piece. We aimed to capture a familiar-yet-alien feeling of our home in its former life.
The gradient I introduced on the opener and carried through the piece serves to enhance the surreal quality of the photographs and subtly prefigures the piece’s concern with the earth’s average temperature over time.
JAN/FEB 2021
This story purposefully coordinated with The Atlantic’s 2020 election-coverage illustration style and makes much use of a photo editing process developed by Paul Spella. We rarely run side-bars in Atlantic features so the many footnotes in this story allowed for interesting typographical variety.