In charge of art direction for Capital Acumen magazine, U.S. Trust
Redesigned the logo and contents of the magazine
Came up with concepts and assigned award winning illustrations
"Breaking Away" cover:
• Pearl • Bronze, Best Use of Illustration, cover
• Mercury Excellence • Bronze, whole issue, summer 2010
"The Pivotal Year" cover:
• Pearl • Gold, Best Use of Illustration, cover
• Mercury Excellence • Bronze, whole issue, winter 2010
Mercury Excellence • Bronze, whole issue, summer 2010
• Mercury Excellence • Bronze, whole issue, winter 2010
SPD • Merit, Spot Illustration 2010
With a lot of information, text-heavy articles and very small budget it was a challenge to create a beautiful publication. One of solutions was assigning a lot of illustrations to avoid overused stock images and create original concepts.
• Mercury Excellence • Bronze, whole issue, summer 2010
To balance text-heavy articles we used saturated color drop caps, pull quotes and fact inserts with numbers.
• Mercury Excellence • Bronze, whole issue, summer 2010
Sometime stock photography was used in conceptual way.
