Design and Art Direction
El Niño and La Niña ROLE: art direction and research; PRODUCT: “El Niño, La Niña: Nature’s Vicious Cycle,” By Curt Suplee, National Geographic, March 1999; illustration © Heidi Merscher; spread © National Geographic
Colossal Coup ROLE: art direction and graphic; PRODUCT: “Triumph of the Titans,” by Kristina A. Curry Rogers and Michael D. D’Emic, Scientific American, May 2012; illustration © Raul Martin, spread ©Scientific American
Three Promising Vaccine Strategies ROLE: art direction and research; PRODUCT: “Halting the World’s Most Lethal Parasite,” By Mary Carmichael; Scientific American, November 2010; illustration © Peter and Maria Hoey; spread © Scientific American
How to See Neutrinos ROLE: art direction and design PRODUCT: “Through Neutrino Eyes,” by Graciela B. Gelmini, Alexander Kusenko and Thomas J. Weiler, Scientific American, May 2010; illustration © George Retseck; scale icons © Jessica Huppi; photograph: courtesy of Reina Maruyama, National Science Foundation; spread © Scientific American
Aging Fleet under Review ROLE: art direction, box design, and graphics; PRODUCT: “Planning for the Black Swan,” by Adam Piore, Scientific American, June 2011; reactor illustrations and map © Don Foley; sources: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Nuclear Energy Institute; USGS (earthquake risk map pattern overlay); spread © Scientific American
A Precocious Peopling ROLE: box design and art direction; PRODUCT: “The First Americans,” by Heather Pringle, Scientific American November 2011; illustrations © Tyler Jacobson, map © XNR Productions; sources: courtesy of Jon M. Erlandson, University of Oregon (Santa Rosa spearhead); courtesy of Michael R. Waters, Texas A&M University (Clovis and Friedkin spearheads); from “The Late Pleistocene Dispersal of Modern Humans in the Americas,” by Ted Goebel et al., in Science, vol. 319; March 14, 2008 (timeline: glacial maximum and corridor opening dates have been updated with other sources); Consultants: Kennedy Munyikwa, Athabasca University and Michael R. Waters (ice sheets); Quentin Mackie, University of Victoria (coastal route vignette); Stuart J. Fiedel, Louis Berger Group and Ben Potter, University of Alaska Fairbanks (land route); spread © Scientific American
Breaking the Deep-Space Barrier ROLE: art direction; PRODUCT: “This Way to Mars,” by Damon Landau and Nathan J. Strange, Scientific American, December 2011; illustration © Pitch Interactive; sources: NASA (Earth and moon imagery); spread © Scientific American
Different Species for Different Reasons ROLE: art direction; PRODUCT: “The Ultimate Social Network,” by Jennifer Ackerman, Scientific American, June 2012; illustration © Bryan Christie; Source: “Inside the Microbial and Immune Labyrinth: Gut Microbes: Friends or Fiends?” by Warren Strober, in Nature Medicine , VOL. 16; 2010 (B. fragilis case study) ); spread © Scientific American
Why We Die ROLE: art direction and graph set-up; PRODUCT: “How We All Will Live to Be 100,” by Katherine Harmon, Scientific American, September 2012; illustration © Chad Hagen; Source: OECD Health Data 2011