About

I’m currently the Digital Design Director at The New Republic, where I manage a team of developers and helped to implement the publication’s rebrand and redesign developed by Pentagram. I collaborate with the editorial, business, and product teams on web wireframes, illustration commissions, marketing materials, and social and video strategy.

Previously, I was an Art Director at Barron’s, designing covers, feature packages, information graphics, and editorial illustrations for print, then adapting those designs for web and social.

Earlier roles include Art Director at Vocativ, where I manged a team of in-house designers and contractors to implement a new identity system also developed by Pentagram and expanded the publication’s illustration and photography approach. I also held contract and full-time positions with Money magazine and Newsweek magazine; and was commissioned for clients including The New York Times, New York Magazine, and Time.

I studied design at Purchase College, earning a BFA in visual arts with a concentration in graphic design.

Before all of that, I grew up in Orange County, NY where I worked as a farmhand, stock boy, shoe salesman, camp counselor, and car salesman.

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