ABOUT

Jessica Rose is a Canadian-born, London-based award winning Art Director and journalist who loves to tell stories for magazines and newspapers. Specializing in   editorial art direction and visual storytelling, she loves to tell compelling and distinct stories in print, digital and beyond. She is formerly the Art Director of Wallpaper*, The Sunday Times Magazine, Tatler and Toronto Life. She has contributed words, pictures and stories to many publications such as Elle, Elle Collections, Frieze, C Magazine, Luxx, Monaco, The Times, The Sunday Times, Wallpaper*, Women’s Health, and Zeit. Her Toronto Life article “Lost and Found” won gold at the National Magazine Awards for Best New Writing and is the most-read long form feature in the magazine’s history. She is the author of the debut memoir Just Us Kids in the Dark commissioned by HarperCollins and is represented by Curtis Brown literary agency in London.
                                                   E: hello@jessicaroselovesmagazines.com  Contact
E: Studio@
Literary

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 

  



THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE  -  Visual Storytelling for News - Cover Concept, Design, Art (and Lines!)
Of course we turned the cover into a cat meme for this issue

“Woke up in my London hotel to my face pic-stitched to a princess”
                                                  -RIHANNA
 EXHIBITION CATALOGUE & ARTIST’S BOOK - Nuit Blanche
 

WALLPAPER* & Tomas Seraceno - Visual Story Telling for Feature Reportage & Flight Companion

 





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. Jessica Rose is @thejessicarose on Twitter.
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
E: Studio@
Literary

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*


Of course we turned the cover into a cat meme for this issue



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