I am a creative director, designer, writer, speaker and manager who is responsible for the design of one of the world's most iconic brands.

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Creative Director

Designer. I design, concept and produce the cover of TIME Magazine, challenged each week with presenting some of the biggest news stories of the past 10 years.
Manager. I handle all aspects of managing a creative staff of more than a dozen art directors, designers, graphic artists and researchers. I also hire and art direct some of the world's best photographers and illustrators.
Branding. I oversee the design of the brand on all platforms, including time.com, TIME for Kids and marketing, sales and promotion.
Budgeting. I manage a departmental operating budget of more than $1 million and have continued to maintain quality and cost effectiveness despite budgets and resources being drastically reduced in recent years.

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Digital

iPad. I led TIME's editorial and design as the first weekly magazine to launch on the iPad, meeting with Steve Jobs to produce the first iPad issue from start to publishing in 40 days.
iPhone. I conceived and led TIME to produce the first fully-interactive weekly magazine designed specifically for the iPhone.
Web. Helped lead the creative process during a complete redesign of time.com.
Animation. Currently art direct a weekly animated cover for TIME's 60 million+ social audience on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

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Designer

Editorial. Designed seven Person of the Year cover packages, several TIME 100 projects, dozens of special issues including 9/11, Steve Jobs and Michael Jackson, and hundreds of TIME cover stories and features over the past two decades.
Books. I have designed more than two dozen books including Obama's Inauguration, Haiti, Ted Kennedy, the 100 Greatest Places in History, Barack Obama: Eight Years, Your Digital Life: The Ultimate Users Guide and Inside the White House. I also art directed Bracketology: The Final Four of Everything and wrote a bracket on the best NFL logos.
Newspapers. Served as the Features Design Coordinator at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for four years and led the design for the AJC's coverage of the 1996 Olympic Games.

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Writer

Staff writer. Prior to TIME, I was a sportswriter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, with more than 1,100 published stories in six years. I covered local and professional sports and the PGA Tour. I also traveled with a NCAA college basketball team, serving as its beat writer for three seasons.
Web. Aside from writing and concepting cover lines and headlines for TIME, I write occasional posts for time.com.

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Speaker

Presenter & Teacher. I have presented at design conferences and workshops around the world, including speaking and teaching a two-day design workshop for journalists in Beijing, China and serving as a featured speaker at an international design conference in Amsterdam.
Lecturer. I speak at conferences, universities and festivals throughout the U.S., including New York, San Francisco, San Diego, Washington, D.C., Portland, Tampa, Montana and Atlanta.

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Awards

My work has received dozens of the industry's top awards, including being named three consecutive years to the Folio 100 list (2016-2018) and receiving the 2013 Best Designed Magazine and the 2017 Best Cover of the Year awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors. I was also named to AdWeek’s Hot List in 2018 for Magazine Cover of the Year and named one of the 25 People Who Defined Visual Culture in 2018.

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