| Editorial Illustration
Years: 2007 - 2009
Among the many magazine and newspaper editorial projects completed by Post Typography, these illustrations appeared alongside features, reviews, and opinion pieces. For more of our editorial work, photo illustration, custom lettering, and headline type visit the Illustration and Type & Lettering sections of our portfolio.
Above: Politics, Real and Imagined
Client: The New York Times
This special issue of the Times Book Review focused on many facets of the political spectrum---from party politics to 60s radicalism to racism. Since the subject matter was so broad, the cover illustration depicts a many-striped American flag, complexly winding around itself.
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| Comments
Client: Time Magazine
This editorial illustration ran alongside an article focusing on the generally immature and combative tone of many websites' Comments sections.
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| Natty Bohipsters
Client: Baltimore Magazine
For a feature on the Baltimore underground music scene, titled "If You Lived Here, You'd Be Cool By Now," we reimagined the iconic National Bohemian beer mascot in a variety of hipster personas.
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| May
Client: Fast Company
This typographic illustration opened the May calendar section of Fast Company magazine. Using grass seeds and time-lapse photography, we planted and grew the word "May," documenting it over the course of three weeks.
> VIEW TIME LAPSE VIDEO OF COMPLETE GROWTH CYCLE
Official Selection, Type Director's Club Typography Annual
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| Dirty Minds
Client: WIRED
Steven Pinker's book on language, The Stuff of Thought, theorizes that cursing is hardwired into a primordial part of the brain, that even animals "curse" in the form of a yelp when you step on their tail. Our illustration for this book review weaves a series of curse words into the folds of the cerebral cortex.
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| Productive Europe
Client: The McKinsey Quarterly
This illustration accompanied an essay discussing ways that Europe could remain competitive in world markets by boosting its productivity.
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| Frenemies
Client: Fast Company
This illustration ran alongside an article about corporate mergers turned sour.
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