Art direction · Paris and Berlin
Art director for magazines, books and the brands that read them
Fifteen years of covers, grids and typefaces chosen with care. I believe a page should breathe before it speaks.
Clara treats white space like a co-author - it gets the best lines.
2016 - 2026
Feature
Revue Lumière had grown loud: six typefaces, a cover line on every inch. We cut it to two faces, one cover image and a grid of nine columns that lets long reads run wide and short ones sit quietly in the margin.
Newsstand sales rose for the first time in a decade; the letters page asked us to never change it again.
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École Estienne, Paris
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Magazine · 2026
A cultural monthly that had grown loud, set again on nine columns and two typefaces - so that long reads run wide and short ones sit quietly in the margin.
Revue Lumière had grown loud: six typefaces, a cover line on every inch and a new section every season. The editors wanted readers to stay longer with each piece - without losing the newsstand.
I led two designers and the photo desk for nine months. We cut the magazine to two faces and one cover image, drew a nine-column grid and wrote the style sheet the editors now use without us.
Clara treats white space like a co-author - it gets the best lines.
Newsstand sales rose for the first time in a decade, and the time readers spend with an issue doubled in the reader survey. The letters page asked us to never change it again.