Based on Boston's North Shore, the John Hall Design Group specializes in publication design, production, art direction, and project management. Our projects include books, magazines, newsletters, catalogs, annual reports and all types of print communications. We excel at creating designs that integrate words and images to produce compelling, well organized publications.

We currently design and produce quarterly magazines for Babson College and the University of Northern Colorado; art, architecture, and home design books for Rockport Publishers and The Urban Land Institute; financial publications for Fidelity Investments and InvestorPlace Media; and a wide variety of other projects for clients that include: Adviser Investments, Aspen Publishers/Wolters Kluwer, Collegia, International Marine Publishing/McGraw-Hill, The MacDowell Colony, and Quayside Publishing Group.

John has nearly 20 years experience as an art director, and has designed many award-winning books and magazines. He was the founding design director of Experience magazine, a career and lifestyle magazine for young professionals, that was honored as a national finalist for Best New Magazine Design in the 2000 Folio Ozzie Awards. He also art directed Continental, the inflight magazine of Continental Airlines, Running Times, a national sports magazine, and was the advertising art director of the Boston Phoenix, an alternative weekly newspaper.

John is a member of the Boston Chapter of the AIGA and MediaBistro's AvantGuild.

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