(In 44 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 photograph of Jessica Rose:
6. This portrait 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 at Toronto Life.
9. She was the city magazine’s youngest female Art Director.
10. Jessica Rose had no magazine experience.
11. She had been 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 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. This is her first cover commissioned by The Sunday Times Magazine in 2013:
24. Rihanna, who was in London at the time, picked up the magazine, freaked out, and was like hashtag, hashtag, hashtag on Instagram.
25. The cover went viral.
26. Jessica Rose has made many covers for The ST Mag since.
27. She is also the graphic illustrator behind Matt Rudd’s weekly magazine column “God of Small Things”:
28. Her dr
29. They inspired a collection of short stories or one act visual plays about the relationship between the everyday and the extra-ordinary:
29. Jessica Rose loves telling stories visually.
30. Her approach to visual storytelling is first and foremost content driven.
31. And conversational.
32. Like you (since you’ve read this far) she is addicted to words and pictures.
33. Obsessed even (not to make assumptions about you) – no (again not putting you in a box but) actually compelled to commune in story.
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35. Sometimes the perfect form for a columnist’s search for the profound in the mundane is to reinvent the shape of a column.
36. Sometimes the perfect form for a feature story on women’s representation is reimagining the face of a cover icon.
37. For a fashion magazine on collections, a typeface made out of runway shoes and hats and umbrellas.
38. For reportage on city violence for which there are no adequate words: remove the words and in the absence of headlines a magazine cover is transformed into a space for citizens to mourn.
39. And sometimes the perfect form for a story about the relationship between the everyday and the extra-ordinary – and to commune with each other – is a magazine.
40. Jessica Rose loves magazines.
41. Read all about it or you can take a look at the compilation of tearsheets (a.k.a. visual stories) on this website.
42. Jessica Rose loves talking about magazines.
43. Almost as much as she loves making magazines.
44. So if you wanna talk about it...