Visual identity design.
Hawthornden Foundation is a private charitable organization supporting contemporary writers and the literary arts. Established by Drue Heinz, the noted philanthropist and patron of the arts, the Foundation provides residential retreats for creative writers from all disciplines at Hawthornden Castle in Midlothian, Scotland, and at Casa Ecco, on Lake Como in Italy. In 2024 Hawthornden will open a new non-residential retreat—Hawthornden Brooklyn—in New York. In addition, the Foundation sponsors the annual Hawthornden Prize, one of Britain's oldest and foremost literary awards, and provides grant support to other literary programs.

A Memoir by Karen Brooks Hopkins

Published by powerHouse Books
Hardcover with jacket

Creative direction, image editing, and design

An illustrated memoir by President Emerita of the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Karen Brooks Hopkins, on her 36 years at the iconic cultural institution, America's oldest performing arts center.

African-American Portraits from the Dawn of Photography

In this display, the Schomburg Center shares images of the oldest photographs in their collection—ambrotypes, daguerrotypes, and tintypes created between 1840 and 1870. With accompanying poetry by Dante Clark.

Curated by: Dr. Dalila Scruggs

Presented by: The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Location: St. Nicholas Park
132nd Street and 139th Street and St. Nicholas Ave, NYC

Produced in partnership with Photoville

A Photographer’s Notebook 1980–1997
by Edward Grazda

Published by powerHouse Books
Hardcover with jacket and poster insert

Photographs by Larry Racioppo

Introduction by Kevin Baker
Afterword by Dick Zigun

“A must read for any
Coney enthusiast.”
—Sean Corcoran
Curator of Prints and Photographs
Museum of the City of New York

Visual identity, books, catalog, and collateral design for the new literary imprint of powerHouse Books.

Annual Benefit

Invitation, event map, posters, menu cards, t-shirt, and other collateral

The Anne Saxelby Legacy Fund provides monthlong paid apprenticeships for young adults to live on sustainable farms — to work, learn, and be inspired to create change in their communities.

Asian Photographers Share the Stories Behind Their Names

Featuring works by: Geloy Concepcion, Amir Hamja, Shuran Huang, Stephanie Mei-Ling, Ian Morton, Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet, Haruka Sakaguchi, Neeta Satamm, and Arin Yoon

Curated by: Photoville

Presented by: Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance & Photoville

Location: Bella Abzug Park, 533 W 34th St, NYC

Established a design system for the Archway Editions book series

By Bart Heynen

Published by powerHouse Books
Printed in Italy by EBS

A Guide to Gentle World Domination
by Howard Collinge

Published by powerHouse Books

Creative direction, image research,
and design

Image editing and design for exhibition celebrating the 140th birthday of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Location: Brooklyn Bridge Park

Produced with Photoville

Visual identity and collateral for seller of vintage watches.

Client: TOOCS, Berlin. www.toocs.eu

Identity and collateral for New York City independent school

Client: Poly Prep Country Day School
Agency: Fancy

Designed with Astrid Lewis Reedy

Photographs by Rebecca Horne

Limited-edition to accompany the exhibit Buried Intentions at Galerie Confluence, Nantes, France

Visual identity with a custom-drawn typeface for an innovative oral-health and beauty boutique.

Client: ModMouth
Agency: Fancy

Designed with Astrid Lewis Reedy

Logotype design for agency representing unconventional portrait artists.

An interlocking "A" and "M" form the logo for this production company that produces videos for museums. The stationery and business card were letterpress-printed using a palette of greys.

A Faconti & Richer collaboration

Calories of Power; Comida

Photographs by José A. Alvarado Jr.

Presented by: Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance & Photoville

Location: Bella Abzug Park, 533 W 34th St, NYC

A New York native, José A. Alvarado Jr. is a Puerto Rican documentary photographer based in New York City. His work focuses on documenting class inequality, civic engagement, and contemporary issues in Puerto Rico and New York City. He works primarily in long-form storytelling, using visual imagery as a bridge to help raise awareness, begin discussions between members of the communities affected & their audience, and discover strategies to navigate these challenging elements in our societies.

Biannual magazine for independent school in Brooklyn.

Client: Poly Prep
Agency: Fancy

Designed with Astrid Lewis Reedy

How to Build Brands by Fulfilling
the Consumer Quest for Meaning

By Dr. Emmanuel Probst
Published by powerHouse Books
Hardcover with spot UV and three neon inks

Creative direction and book design

Photographs by Sara Leith-Tanous

Printed by Meridian Printing, Rhode Island

An ongoing series of modern and contemporary art installations organized by the American Federation of Arts.

Bill Viola: The Raft
Yoko Ono: Mend Piece

Client: American Federation of Arts

Collateral design

Nathlie Provosty & Robert Kelly

The Color Mill presents a collaboration between artist Nathlie Provosty and poet Robert Kelly—Kelly wrote the included texts in response to a series of Provosty's drawings. The jacket text is laser cut to reveal the gradient-printed book cover below, and the edges are foil-stamped red.

A Faconti & Richer collaboration

Logo, letter-press business cards and stationery, uniforms, and signage for a Brooklyn-based design-and-build company. The lines of the logo drawing, which form "PW," were inspired by floor plans and by the intricate architectural details in historic brownstone buildings.

A Faconti & Richer collaboration

The Portraits of Francesco Clemente

"Life is Paradise...serves as a kind of figurative compass to the world Clemente hasn't merely traveled through but conquered since 1981."
—Vogue

Published to coincide with the Guggenheim Museum's landmark Francesco Clemente retrospective, the large-format volume gathers a mostly private collection of Clemente's portraits. Three multi-page gatefolds showcase wide-format paintings, and watercolor details adorn the slipcase.

Edited by Kathy Ryan
Preface by Gerald Marzorati

Photographs and Notes
by 140 Photographers

Design consultation by
Janet Froelich and Arem Duplessis

Published by Aperture

Photographs by Carolina Sandretto

In 1953, Cuba had 694 cinemas and theaters. Havana alone had 134, more than New York or Paris. In 2014, documentary photographer Carolina Sandretto set out to find and photograph, with a 1950s medium-format camera, the remaining cinemas from that golden era. This book is the visual document of her journey.

See more at cinesdecuba.com

A Faconti & Richer collaboration
Published by Skira International

Innovation: Exhibition Within An Exhibition

Catalog for the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) annual trade show at the Park Avenue Armory.

Photographs by Max Kozloff

Published by powerHouse Books

An accordion-fold treatment depicts the entire panoramic image created by Nicholas Kahn & Richard Selesnick. Housed in a die-cut slipcase and a box wrapped in pearlized paper and blind-stamped, the package includes a DVD printed with a Kahn & Selesnick moon and mounted on a card, a lenticular image, and a 16-page booklet illustrated with mixed-media images.

Published by Aperture

Photographs, 1971–1983
By Larry Racioppo

Essays by Tom Robbins
and Julia Van Haaften

Published by Cornell University Press

Jacket design with Astrid Lewis Reedy
and Scott Levine

The pioneering photography foundation's move from their longtime townhouse headquarters to a raw 17,500-square-foot space in Chelsea prompted a new graphic identity. The overhaul unified Aperture's publications, collateral, signage, exhibition and environmental graphics, and website. An illustration used on early issues of the magazine inspired the new logo with its die-cut "aperture." 

Photographs by Donna Ferrato
Published by powerHouse Books
Book & cover design by Donna Ferrato

Design consulting and typesetting

Women Leaders
Reversing Global Warming
by Paola Gianturco & Avery Sangster

Design prototype

Social media campaign to encourage mask donations.

Client: Mask Match
Agency: Fancy

Designed with Meg Moorhouse

The Postwar Years
Photographs by Leo Goldstein

Texts by Juan González
and A.D. Coleman

Edited by Régina Monfort
and produced in collaboration
with Naomi Goldstein

Published by powerHouse Books

Lucie Photo Book Prize, Finalist, 2019

New York Magazine selection,
Most Giftable Coffee-Table Books of 2019

Logo and letterhead package for NYC-based residential design firm. 

For this hardcover monograph, published on the occasion of Provosty's solo show at the Nathalie Karg Gallery in New York, a painting detail, highlighted by a spot varnish, was wrapped around the case. 

A Faconti & Richer collaboration
Published by Distanz Verlag, Berlin

Identity design refresh and letterhead package.

Client: American Federation of Arts

Logo and identity for a social media campaign to share treasures from New York State museums. A "wallpaper" of engravings of various artifacts was developed to be used as a banner or background.

A Faconti & Richer collaboration

First Works of 362 Artists

"An impressive collection of early works by contemporary art's biggest names, from Abramoviç to Zittel."
—Vogue

Selected as the basis for an 8-page feature story in The Guardian magazine

Edited by Francesca Richer and Matthew Rosenzweig
Published by D.A.P.

Spring 2016 issue of a newsprint publication that focuses on the photobook and accompanies Aperture magazine.

Photo editing, sequencing, and design for imprint of limited-edition photography publications.

A Faconti & Richer collaboration

John Cohen’s Early Photographs
of Bob Dylan
Published by powerHouse Books

The World of Clifford Ross

Slipcase and companion book to Ross's Hurricane Waves, to accompany a landmark exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.

Seen & Imagined offers the first comprehensive survey of Ross's work, and is the first art book to offer an augmented reality 3D “pop up” experience, via an app and a smartphone. The slipcase is wrapped in one of Ross's LED waves, and a series of interior gatefolds allow "deep dives" into extreme details of selected images. 

Design oversight spanned initial image editing and sequencing to the press check at Meridian Printing, Rhode Island.

A Faconti & Richer collaboration
Published by MASS MoCA and MIT Press

Jean Patchett
By Robert and Lois Allen Lilly

Irving Penn called Jean Patchett ”a young American goddess in Paris couture.” This volume explores the career of the most successful fashion model of her time.

Published by powerHouse Books

7 Ways Big Corporations Rule Your Life and How to Take Back Control
By Sally Hubbard

Published by Simon & Schuster

Jacket design with neon ink and spot UV

Transformational Festivals
and the Neo Hippie

Steve Schapiro, known for his iconic photographs of the 1960s counterculture, documented contemporary transformational festivals across the U.S. Photographs were rotated and bled into one another to reflect the immersive nature of the festival experience. For the cover, artist Becca Mann was commissioned to re-create a tie-dye pattern from a photo detail, which was printed on cloth and blind-stamped with the title. 

Published by powerHouse Books

Logo, identity, signage, and collateral for a Brooklyn preschool

Photographs by Lori Grinker
powerHouse Books, spring 2022

Case design

Gabriele Tinti / Roger Ballen
Published by powerHouse Books
Book design by Robert Avellan

Cover and type design direction

Journey Through My Windows
1977–1987
Photographs by Joseph Rodriguez
Essay by Richard Price

Book design by Andy Outis
Published by powerHouse Books

Cover design consultation

The Cat Photographer

Walter Chandoha is the forefather and an early master of animal phototography. For this volume of Chandoha's colorful studio portraits of cats, images were laid out in a rainbow sequence. A clothbound cover with tipped-on image and iridescent foil stamp, and multi-colored endpapers, complete the package.

Published by Aperture

A Family Roots Music Treasury
Published by Quarto Publishing Group

Cover design and wood type direction with Astrid Lewis Reedy

Recipes by Karen Rose
and Apprentices

A book of healing recipes using plant medicine compiled by Sacred Vibes Apothecary in Brooklyn, New York.

sacredvibeshealing.com

Designed with Astrid Lewis Reedy

Photographs by Stephen Shames

Published by Aperture

A Celebration of Jewish Food

For this ode to a neighborhood and culture, a flexible format was devised to accommodate a lively mix of Rezny’s photographs, contributers’ recipes, personal anecdotes, and snapshots, and longer texts on beloved Lower East Side venues.

Published by powerHouse Books

Published by Aperture

A Life's Work

"A Life's Work is a knockout and a rarity: a coffee-table book with as much soul as pizzazz."
—Village Voice

Art Director’s Club Award winner

Born in 1919, celebrated photographer Phil Stern documented World War II soldiers, luminous jazz legends, and Hollywood stars. With photo editor Meg Handler, a selection was made from hundreds of prints and contact sheets in Stern's archive, to include many never-before-seen images of some of the greatest American performers of the twentieth century.

Published by powerHouse Books

Writings by Japanese Photographers
Book jacket design
Published by Aperture

Photographs by Hans Eijkelboom
Published by Aperture

Photography by Jungjin Lee

Portraits of Iraqi Refugees in Exile
by Zalmaî

Published by Aperture

Or, How We Spent the War in Vietnam
Photography by Tod Papageorge
Published by Aperture

Clothbound book with CD
Published by Aperture

Published by Aperture

Photographs by Josef Koudelka

Published by Aperture

Essays by Philip Gefter

Published by Aperture

Photographs by Gillian Laub

One of the great photographers of the twentieth century, Paul Strand made a “collective portrait” of Mexico during two trips there in 1932–34 and 1966. This comprehensive volume, created to coincide with the centennial of Mexico’s independence, includes scores of never-before-published images as well as a DVD of Strand’s film Redes.

Published by Aperture

Private Views
Photographs by Barbara Crane
Slipcased clothbound hardcover with foil stamp and tip-on image.
Published by Aperture

Photographs by Melanie Einzig

Photo edit, sequence, book title, and design

Photographs by Andrea Robbins
and Max Becher
Published by Aperture

Photographs by Chien-Chi Chang

Magnum photographer Chien-Chi Chang explores the business of marriage brokers who recruit young Vietnamese women to marry Taiwanese men.

Published by Aperture

Photography by Laurie Simmons
Published by Aperture

Mexican Beasts and Living Santos
Guillermo Gomez-Peña and
Roberto Sifuentes

Hardcover book with die-cut,
postcard, CD, and tattoo
Published by powerHouse Books

A Balkan War Journal
by Ron Haviv

Strangely Familiar
Acrobats, Athletes, and
Other Traveling Troupes

Published by Aperture

Characters & Cosplay

Photographs by Elena Dorfman
Published by Aperture

Don’t Kiss Me:
The Art of Claude Cahun
& Marcel Moore
Book jacket
Published by Aperture

Claude Cahun: Three Photographs
Limited Edition packaging
Produced by Aperture

A Coral Reef Adventure

Published by Umbrage Editions

A Struggle to Survive
Photographs by Steve Lehman
Published by Red Wheelbarrow / Umbrage

Simply the Best

From the 1950s to Now
Published by Aperture

Landscapes without Memory

Published by Aperture

Published by Aperture

New York City’s Grafitti Writers
By Peter Sutherland
Text by REVS
Published by powerHouse Books
Designed with Kiki Bauer

The Preservation of Wilderness
in New York City Parks
Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz
Published by Aperture
Designed with Peter Buchanan-Smith

Photographs by Zalmaï
Published by Aperture

Hardcover book in clothbound clamshell box
Published by Aperture

Photographs by Jeff Mermelstein
Published by powerHouse Books

Photo editing, sequence, and book design.

Photographs by Jeff Mermelstein

The Legend and the Man
Essay by Patricia Bosworth
Foreword by Martin Scorsese
Remembrance by Maureen O’Hara
Interview with Ron Howard
Remembrance by Ronald Reagan

Photo editing and design

Published by powerHouse

New York Road Runners Impact Reports, 2018 & 2019.

Client: New York Road Runners
Agency: Fancy

Designed with Astrid Lewis Reedy

To celebrate a landmark anniversary, this national supermarket chain commissioned a special limited-edition volume. Photo-editing, art direction, and design.

Agency: powerHouse

Insight and Inspiration from the Beginning of the Modern Era
Edited by Matthew Shapiro

Design prototype