The Designers Behind
Magazine design
2023
Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator
The Designers Behind the Fashion Icons is a project that delves into the lives of the most prominent fashion magazine designers: Cipe Pineles, Alexey Brodovitch, Fabien Baron, and George Lois. Through their biographies, adaptation of design style, and postage stamp designs, this project offers a unique perspective on the trajectory of these design icons.
The Designers Behind
Magazine Design
2023
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
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About
The Designers Behind the Fashion Icons is an editorial design exploration that uses postage stamps as a storytelling medium to celebrate designers who shaped the visual language of prominent fashion and lifestyle magazines. Each spread is dedicated to a single designer, translating their distinct editorial voice into a cohesive yet highly personalized visual system.
The Challenge
How can the identity of designers known for large-scale, expressive magazine work be distilled into a small, constrained format without losing impact? The challenge was to honor each designer’s legacy while working within the visual and spatial limitations of postage stamps.
My Approach
I adapted each page and spread to reflect the designer’s individual style, drawing from their work in leading fashion and lifestyle publications. Through research-driven visual decisions, I adjusted typography, composition, imagery, and rhythm to mirror each designer’s editorial sensibility, allowing the stamps and surrounding layouts to function as miniature extensions of their magazine work.
