ABOUT
(In 46 sentences)
1. This is the website of Jessica Rose.
2. Jessica Rose loves making magazines.
3. Jessica Rose is an editorial Art Director.
4. And author.
5. This is a portrait of Jessica Rose:
6. This photo was taken in her former studio in Hackney by Hana K shortly after sending the 20th anniversary issue of Wallpaper* magazine to press.
7. Jessica Rose is formerly the Art Director of Wallpaper* in London.
8. She got her start as the Art Director of Toronto Life.
9. She was the city magazine’s youngest female art director.
10. Jessica Rose had no magazine experience.
11. At the time, she was running museums around the world with the art collective The Movement Movement, literally.
12. D.B Scott’s Canadian Magazines blog got the most comments, ever, the day her appointment was announced.
13. Yes, this means Jessica Rose is Canadian.
14. No, she does not hold a “degree in roller skating backwards through an art gallery. ”
15. But she is a Virgo with Cancer rising, and her lucky number is 13.
16. Her preference is to work with 13 columns on a 13pt baseline grid.
17. Incidentally her favourite rule size is not 0.13pt (sorry guys).
18. In 2013, she was awarded a Master of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London.
19. This is Jessica Rose’s first ever magazine cover:
20. Each bullet commemorates the life of a victim of gun violence (name, age, location of shooting and date) in Toronto.
21. It was awarded Cover of Year by the National Magazine Awards.
22. It had little to do with the number 13.
23. Jessica Rose loves telling stories visually.
24. This is her first cover commissioned by The Sunday Times Magazine in 2013:
25. Rihanna picked up the magazine, freaked out, and was like hashtag, hashtag, hashtag, on Instagram.
26. (@the_jessica_rose is also on Instagram.)
27. The cover went viral.
28. She has since contributed many, many covers as an Art Director for The ST Mag where she was also the graphic illustrator of Matt Rudd's weekly magazine column 'God of Small Things':
34. Her drawings with type like this one, can also be seen in Elle Collections and other magazines.
35. Jessica Rose's approach to magazine making is first and foremost content driven. [ From word to concept]
36. And conversational.
37. She is all about editorial design as the rigorous practice of visual story telling.
38. Like you (since you've read this far), she is addicted to words and pictures.
39. And obsessed with the relationship between pictures and words.
39. She is obsessed with stories.
sometimes the perfect form for a story is a drawing with type in the shape of an Eifel Tower, sometimes the perfect form for a story is a cover of a magazine, sometimes it can be a typeface for
But it’s all about how YOU feel when you encounter the story how included YOU feel when you are in it, and
Because at the end of the day - whether about news, or archicture, or places or
about being human and resonates is how much we need that story to understand ourselves, each other and the world we live in.
40. In London, she loves making magazines and newspapers in digital and print for The Times, Elle, The Sunday Times, Wallpaper* and many more.
41. But you can read all about it here.
42. Or take a look at the tearsheets on this website.
43.
44. Jessica Rose loves talking about magazines.
45. Almost as much as she loves making magazines.
46. So if you wanna talk about it...
Enquiries
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Selected Clients
Wallpaper*
Women’s Health
Hearst
Conde Naste
Monaco
Miserty Conoisseur
Esterson & Associates
Univertiy of London
Heritage Fund
Newham Council
The Drake Hotel
Esterson and Partners
Awards
National Magazine Awards
Gold, Cover Design
Gold, Best New Writer
Gold, Feature Design
Gold, Issue of The Year
Wallpaper*
Women’s Health
Hearst
Conde Naste
Monaco
Miserty Conoisseur
Esterson & Associates
Univertiy of London
Heritage Fund
Newham Council
The Drake Hotel
Esterson and Partners
Awards
National Magazine Awards
Gold, Cover Design
Gold, Best New Writer
Gold, Feature Design
Gold, Issue of The Year