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Jessica Rose loves magazines.
Jessica Rose loves magazines is the editorial studio of Jessica Rose. She works with words and pictures to create timeless, impactful, beautifully crafted and unputdownable editorial for media and clients in art, culture, hospitality, luxury and publishing.

Editorial + Creative Direction  
Written  Visual Journalism and Storytelling.
Words. Pictures. Words+Pictures.

Editorial & Creative Direction and Design 
 Written & Visual Journalism and Storytelling  
Words & Pictures for the Page and Beyond




About 
Jessica Rose is a Canadian-born, London-based creative director and writer who loves making magazines. She is formerly the in-house Art Director of Wallpaper* where she told the stories of the global design brand to global readers, Tatler where she chronicled society on Conde Nast’s glossy pages, and Toronto Life where she turned stories of the city magazine into city wide conversation. She has (re)designed the times, literally, on the The Times and The ST digital redesign. Rihanna posted about her first cover for The Sunday Times Magazine. She is a contributor of written and visual journalism to national, newsstand and independent publications from cover art to a weekly visual column to award-winning long reads. She loves to make and write books, too: she is the graphic artist of How To Sweep A Room for Laurence King, and the author of the debut memoir Just Us Kids In the Dark (HarperCollins). She is represented by Curtis Brown Books in London.
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A few bits you ought to know first*:

––My first magazine cover tanked on the newsstand. It remains the worst selling Toronto Life issue of all times. It also sparked a city wide conversation, then a national one. It won Cover of the Year at the National Magazine Awards, which likely helped the publisher’s decision to keep me on.

How The Gun Has Changed Toronto
by John Lorinc, Toronto Life

––My first magazine cover for The Sunday Times Magazine was picked up by Rihanna (“When your face is pic-stitched to Princess Diana's on the cover of The Sunday Times.... I mean... #extraordinaRIHbehavior”). It went viral, made the news, and made the top of the Drudge Report, sparking a global conversation.

Why Rihanna is the New Diana
by Camille Paglia, The Sunday Times Magazine

––The first magazine story I wrote about hiring a private detective to find my missing origins went viral, won a writing award and landed a book deal. What is most remarkable, to me: hundreds of readers wrote to me—for years after—to talk about the article and share their experience of reading it.

Lost & Found
edited by Emily Landeau, Toronto Life

––I got my start at The Drake Hotel in Toronto straight out of art school. I was given a test to do something with the picture frames proposed as serving trays for the hotel's café. I sewed text into lettuce and other leafy and/or edible items as art for the tray's illuminated surface that directly addressed—and enticed—the hotel's guests. This became the basis for the voice of Drake (a story which Wallpaper* later picked up). Needless to say I got the job.

Eat Me, Bite Me, Take Me
Trays for The Drake Hotel

––I've run art institutions around the world, literally, with The Movement Movement. From the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto to the Melbourne Museum in Australia, we invited the public to join the movement by running institutions together, 5 kilometres at a time—making headlines around the globe.

The Movement Movement Runs the ROM!
with Mercury Films for the Royal Ontario Museum

––Once I invited an entire city to a civic slumber party located in an abandoned subway station. More than 5,000 guests turned up, pyjamas, sleeping bags, toothbrushes and all. Below the city, we built subterranean forts in subway cars to both welcome and ward off the inevitability of sleep, and we collectively dreamed, together.

A City Sleepover / A Sleepover City
for Nuit Blanche with the City of Toronto

––The flightiest and most fanciful thing I (almost) did for a magazine was to be the first human in the air on the Aerocene Explorer. Instead of getting carried up and away by an aerosolar sculpture, I navigated take off—and breaking the story—from the ground up, literally chasing the flight team as they ran back and forth to inflate the fossil-free ride. Tomas Saraceno's Guest Editor issue of Wallpaper* about how the air belongs to everyone reimagines our relationship to the sky.

Aerocene and Flight Companion
Guest Editor Tomas Saraceno for Wallpaper*

––I commissioned the Belgian designer and sculptor Xavier Lust to make a piece of furniture with the manufacturer of the Queen's toothbrush. Their love child: a chaise longue covered in natural boar hair bristles which debuted at Salone del Mobile in Milan. Due to the production time of hand-stitching bristles, only one edition exists. The story of how it was uniquely made is commemorated in the Handmade: Wellness and Wonder issue of Wallpaper*.

La Belle et La Bête Chaise Longue
Xavier Lust × Kent Brushes since 1777 for Salone del Mobile

––I curated the cover of each issue of Wallpaper* magazine like it was an exhibition space. I invited Lorna Simpson to consider, and effectively take over, the cover of the fashion issue. The artist's double take was a double cover: two collages made from magazine pages cut out of old issues of Ebony. The result was an original artwork transforming the magazine into collectable art. The first wasn't just making a cover with one of my foremost influences, but that the cover gave a wink to the Why Rihanna is the New Diana cover.

Older Queen & Adrift Limited Edition Covers
Lorna Simpson for Wallpaper*

––The last first is my first magazine: I was appointed the youngest female Art Director of Toronto Life having never worked a day at a magazine. The Canadian magazine blog post announcing the appointment sparked the most comments ever, though most highlighted my one and only qualification of “roller skating backwards through museums.” The first cover I made for Toronto Life magazine tanked on the newsstand but sparked a national conversation...

This issue was made with love,
Jessica Rose loves magazines.

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“Why Rihanna is the new Diana.”



   ––THE SUNDAY TIMES magazine

 
                                                  “The Good, The Bad, and Miley”
“Dolly World: Tighten Your Bra Straps...”







                        My parents designed the RIBA. (See me now?)                               Tudor on the outside. Early Modern on the inside. (Guess who.)                                    

I shared a roof with Bernard Shaw, Jack Leslie and the Queen. (Say my name, say my name.)                                  

What connects 1x Poet Laureate,  2x West Ham footballers, and 3x Olympians? (Hint: you walk past me every day.)                    

––THE LONDON FESTIVAL OF ARCHITECTURE




ACITYSLEEPOVER
ASLEEPOVERCITY
ACITYSLEEPOVER
ASLEEPOVERCITY
ACITYSLEEPOVER
ASLEEPOVERCITY
ACITYSLEEPOVER
ASLEEPOVERCITY
ACITYSLEEPOVER
ASLEEPOVERCITY
ACITYSLEEPOVER

––Nuit Blanche*
               


This is not a newspaper.



 ––Goldsmiths, University of London






*B.Y.O sleeping bags (and other fort building material)

I decided to search for my biological family sitting at the top of a double decker bus, stuck in traffic in Shoreditch, late for work at The Sunday Times magazine...

         ––Toronto Life  



 The Movement Movement is a movement about movement.   The Movement Movement is an art movement.                                                        


The Movement Movement runs the world’s art institutions.                
 The Movement Movement runs the Royal Ontario Museum!  






“Colour is only in your head.”    
––Jaan Poldaas Estate




Where’s Karl’s cat?  Prada or Blade Runner?  Away with the birds.  Dippity-split.  Pony up.  Give an apple to Elle.



X[OH!]DRAKE
––The Drake Hotel

WALLPAPER*


What is a designer                 ?




––THE  TIMES

Jessica Rose loves magazines.

This issue, like each magazine on this website, was made with love:                                                                    






















































181 words about...

Jessica Rose is a Canadian-born, London-based creative director and writer who loves making magazines. She is formerly the in-house Art Director of Wallpaper*, where she told stories of the global design brand to global readers, Tatler, where she chronicled society on Conde Nast’s glossy pages, and Toronto Life, where she turned stories of the city magazine into city wide conversation. She has redesigned newspapers for the times, literally, on the The Times and The Sunday Times digital redesign, and Rihanna posted about her first cover for The Sunday Times Magazine. She is a contributor of written and visual journalism to national, newsstand and independent publications from cover art to a weekly visual column to award-winning long reads. She is the author and graphic artist of How To Sweep A Room for Laurence King Books, and the debut memoir Just Us Kids In the Dark (HarperCollins). She is represented by Curtis Brown Books in London.


Jessica Rose loves magazines is the editorial studio of Jessica Rose. She works with words and pictures to create timeless, impactful, beautifully crafted and unputdownable editorial for media and clients in art, culture, hospitality, luxury and publishing.



Illustration by Oriana Fenwick, commissioned for Wallpaper*



A few bits you ought to know first*:



––My first magazine cover tanked on the newsstand. It remains the worst selling Toronto Life issue of all times. It also sparked a city wide conversation, then a national one. It won Cover of the Year at the National Magazine Awards, which likely helped the publisher’s decision to keep me on.
          How The Gun Has Changed Toronto by John Lorinc, Toronto Life  

––My first magazine cover for The Sunday Times Magazine was picked up by Rihanna (“When your face is pic-stitched to Princess Diana's on the cover of The Sunday Times.... I mean... #extraordinaRIHbehavior”). It went viral, made the news, and made the top of the Drudge report, sparking a global conversation.   
           Why Rihanna is the New Diana by Camille Paglia, The Sunday Times Magazine

––The first magazine story I wrote about hiring a private detective to find my missing origins went viral, won a writing award and landed a book deal. What is most remarkable, to me: hundreds of readers wrote to me – for years after – to talk about the article and share their experience of reading it. 
            Lost & Found edited by Emily Landeau, Toronto Life

––I got my start at The Drake Hotel in Toronto straight out of art school. I was given a test to do something with the picture frames proposed as serving trays for the hotel’s cafe. I sewed text into lettuce and other leafy and/or edible items as art for the tray’s illuminated surface that directly addressed – and enticed – the hotel’s guests. This became the basis for the voice of Drake, (a story which Wallpaper* later picked up). Needless to say I got the job.
            Eat Me, Bite Me, Take Me Trays for The Drake Hotel

––I’ve run art institutions around the world, literally, with The Movement Movement. From the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto to the Melbourne Museum in Australia, we invited the public to join the movement by running institutions together, 5 kilometres at a time – making headlines around the globe. 
            The Movement Movement Runs the ROM! with Mercury Films for the Royal Ontario Museum

––Once I invited an entire city to a civic slumber party located in an abandoned subway station. More than 5,000 guests turned up, pyjamas, sleeping bags, toothbrushes and all. Below the city, we built subterranean forts in subway cars to both welcome and ward off the inevitability of sleep, and we collectively dreamed, together.
            A City Sleepover / A Sleepover City for Nuit Blanche with the City of Toronto

––The flightiest and most fanciful thing I (almost) did for a magazine was to be the first human in the air on the Aerocene Explorer. Instead of getting carried up and away by an aerosolar sculpture, I navigated take off  – and breaking the story – from the ground up, literally chasing the flight team as they ran back and forth to inflate the fossil free ride. Tomas Saraceno’s Guest Editor issue of Wallpaper* about how the air belongs to everyone reimagines our relationship to the sky.
           Aerocene and Flight Companion, Guest Editor Tomas Saraceno for Wallpaper*

––I commissioned the Belgian designer and sculptor Xavier Lust to make a piece of furniture with the manufacturer of the Queen’s toothbrush. Their love child: a chaise longue covered in natural boar hair bristles which debuted at Salone del Mobile in Milan. Due to the production time of hand stitching bristles, only one edition exists. The story of how it was uniquely made is commemorated in the Handmade: Wellness and Wonder issue of Wallpaper*.
            La Belle et La Bete Chaise Longue, Xavier Lust x Kent Brushes since 1777 for Salone del Mobile

––I curated the cover of each issue of Wallpaper* magazine like it was an exhibition space. I invited Lorna Simpson to consider, and effectively take over, the cover of the fashion issue. The artist’s double take was a double cover: two collages made from magazine pages cut out of old issues of Ebony. The result was an original artwork transforming the magazine into collectable art. The first wasn’t just making a cover with one of my foremost influences, but that the cover gave a wink to the Why Rihanna is the new Diana cover. [See above] 
           Older Queen & Adrift Limited Edition Covers, Lorna Simpson for Wallpaper*  
 
––The last first is my first magazine: I was appointed the youngest female Art Director of Toronto Life having never worked a day at a magazine. The Canadian magazine blog post announcing the appointment sparked the most comments, ever, though most highlighted my one and only qualification of “roller skating backwards through museums.” The first cover I made for Toronto Life magazine tanked on the newsstand but sparked a national conversation... 
         This issue was made with love, Jessica Rose loves magazines.



*Yes I love lists and this one and only is an ode to all the firsts


 Who I work with (a relationship history, in brief).

  • Media
  • In-House + Contributing
  • C-magazine
  • Die Zeit 
  • Elle 
  • Elle Collections F/W 
  • Elle Collections S/S
  • Frieze 
  • Luxx Magazine
  • Misery Connoisseur
  • Monaco
  • Tatler
  • The Sunday Times
  • The Sunday Times Magazine
  • The Times 
  • Toronto Life
  • Wallpaper*
  • Women’s Health 
  • Zeit Magazin
  • Publishing  
  • HarperCollins
  • Hearst 
  • Laurence King Books
  • Morel Books 

  • Studios  
  • Esterson & Associates 

  • Collaborations
Douglas Coupland x The AA 
Mercury Films x The Movement Movement
Ruckl since 1790 x Marine Julie
Xavier Lust x Kent Brushes

     

Cultural Sector  
The Architectural Association, School of Architecture (The AA)
  • Birch Contemporary
  • The City of Toronto 
  • The Drake Hotel 
  • English Heritage
  • Goldsmiths, University of London
  • Jaan Poldaas Estate & Archive 
  • The London Festival of Architecture
Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art
Melbourne Museum
National Lottery Heritage Fund
Newham Borough of London 
Newham Archives & Local Library 
Newham Heritage Month 
Nuit Blanche
Royal Ontario Museum




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