Magazine design was our first love, and is the foundation from which our work in other media is formed. Prior to starting this business, John was the Senior Art Director at Pohly & Partners custom publishing (formerly Cadmus Custom Publishing), where he directed the design of Continental Airlines' inflight magazine—the company's largest account—for four years. He also held art director and design director positions at several other national publications including Running Times, Boston Business and Experience magazines.

Prior to that, John served as Advertising Art Director of the weekly alternative newspaper The Boston Phoenix, where he got his first taste of magazine design as Design Director of the high-profile Boston Bruins' and Boston Celtics' official yearbooks, which were published by the newspaper's contract publishing division.

Most recently, the studio has designed the annual Discover Gloucester Visitor Guide, a 64-page digest-sized tourism guide to Gloucester, Massachusetts for the past four years. We also developed and produced two ongoing content marketing publications, the technology and business focused quarterly Solve for Time Warner Cable, as well as a human resources magazine for TriNet HR Solutions. We developed a new magazine for the Mind & Life Institute centered around mindfulness; and designed alumni magazines for top educational institutions including Babson College and the University of Northern Colorado. For each of these projects, we directed an overall design or redesign, and then art directed and produced the publications on an ongoing basis.

Take a look through the sample galleries below, and if you have a magazine redesign, new launch, or ongoing design project you'd like to discuss or are looking for contract magazine design expertise, please contact us.