Editorial design, illustrations, and spreads for digital and physical magazines and publications.
Cleveland Review of Books, 2020-PRESENT
Digital Editorial Artworks, Art Direction
Illustrations to accompany weekly pieces published in the digital portion of the journal, defining the experimental and playful visual voice, personality, and yada yada of the magazine. Ranging from photo illustration to overblasted scribblings.
Cleveland Review of Books, Volume 4.1 (SS)
2026, 6”×8.5”, 208 PAGES, Full Color
Cover: Grit Textured Laminate
Principal Designer: Cover(s) Design, Book Design, Editorial Illustration, Art Direction, Adverts, Creative Direction
After a few dark ages, we are now back in full technicolor. Booksmaxxing, if you will. We are in a new size, too—the size of my favorite Canson. Pens, crayons, pencils, lipstick, blushes, tears, wine. Anything goes.
Cleveland Review of Books, Volume 3.1 (SS)
2025, 7x10, 216 PAGES, B&W
Cleveland Review of Books, Volume 3.2 (FW)
2025, 7x10, 152 PAGES, B&W
Cover: Grit Textured Laminate
Principal Designer: Cover(s) Design, Book Design, Editorial Illustration, Art Direction, Creative Direction
The stars continue. The stars on the bottom of the interior pages spin when you flip them. It’s pretty special. The seagull by the Cleveland water is a menace. A cyan sky. The star is criticized. Letters are structures abused buy the seagull.
Cleveland Review of Books, Volume 2.2 (FW)
2024, 9x7, 208 PAGES, B&W
Bookmarks: 2x6 14 pt Uncoated
Featuring 5 nude stars, front and backside.
Cover: Grit Textured Laminate
Principal Designer: Cover(s) Design, Book Design, Editorial Illustration, Art Direction, Creative Direction
This issue’s design is itself an act of criticism and personal revenge: on the current state of mass market literary spheres, on trendy Instagram design culture, on intellectualism, on seriousness, and on the shapes of expectation. A feature of the covers of Volumes 2.1 & 2.2 is when stacked on their side, the spine ombre carries from the “2.1” to “2.2”. My hope is to destructively look at the invented exclusivity of posh-intellect and propel a poking approach, hopefully lava-lamping into knock-knock joke poetics. The stars, some of which are guest illustrated by the hand of Ro Gingrich, that act as a mascot through this issue, are a comment on CRB’s tactical mission to test what criticism can be by satirically showing what it’s not. Although physically a departure, this issue is as grounded as ever in the spirit of experiment, of adaptability to constraint, of approachability to the new. All to say—there were budget constraints.
Cleveland Review of Books, Volume 2.1 (SS)
2024, 9x7, 224 PAGES, B&W
Bookmarks: 2x6 14 pt Uncoated
Featuring 5 nude stars, front and backside.
Cover: Grit Textured Laminate
Principal Designer: Cover(s) Design, Book Design, Editorial Illustration, Art Direction, Creative Direction
This issue’s design is itself an act of criticism and personal revenge: on the current state of mass market literary spheres, on trendy Instagram design culture, on intellectualism, on seriousness, and on the shapes of expectation. My hope is to destructively look at the invented exclusivity of posh-intellect and propel a poking approach, hopefully lava-lamping into knock-knock joke poetics. The stars that act as a mascot through this issue, which I illustrated around 55 of, are a comment on CRB’s tactical mission to test what criticism can be by satirically showing what it’s not. Although physically a departure, this issue is as grounded as ever in the spirit of experiment, of adaptability to constraint, of approachability to the new. All to say—there were budget constraints.
Cleveland Review of Books, Volume 01
2023, 7x9.5, 176 PAGES
Innards: 60lb bond
Cover: soft touch laminate
Principal Designer: Cover(s) Design, Book Design, Editorial Illustration, Art Direction
Revamped and more than double the size of the Volume 00, Volume 01 holds 24 people and 22 pieces of new and republished Cleveland Review of Books writing. I was responsible for art direction, typesetting, and creating all visual artworks (whatever shape that takes: photo illustration, collage, drawing, public domain destruction) to accompany these pieces, as well as all CRB promotional material and adverts in and around the publication. In addition, I oversaw the printing process, working with Outlandish Press (a local Cleveland printer) to find pretty materials for production. Below are the covers and some of my favorite spreads.
The boys save their friend in distress.
SECRET RARE ALTERNATE COVER The boys jumping over the moon on their way to pick up their friend in distress.
Cleveland Review of Books, Volume 00
7.25x10.25, 104 PAGES
Cover Design, Book Design,
Illustration, Art Direction
CRB, a primarily online criticism journal, is now entering the print game. As the sole artist and designer on this project, I was given a lot of freedom to conceptualize a container, typeset text, and create artworks for each of the 12 pieces included in this volume, creating a book in the shape of a magazine. Below are a select bunch of spreads.
Cleveland Review of Books Fall/Winter 2022
