2 years of lead story art for Matter, art-directed by Erich Nagler — June 2014

Medium wins big at the SPDs — Earlier this month, Medium’s design team took home 3 SPD Awards from the Society of Publication Designers for the design and art-direction of the Medium publication Matter. (For those who don’t know, the SPDs are the Oscars of editorial design. …

Matter’s multi-part collaboration with ProPublica was named a Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting this week. I worked on the story for over a year—as it takes a tremendous amount of work from an entire team to get this close to a Pulitzer. Here is some of what went into it. — April 2014 My first day on the job as Art Director of Matter, then Medium’s flagship publication, was almost exactly two years ago, on Wednesday, April 9th. The following Monday, my new Editor in Chief, Mark Lotto, forwarded me an email from joseph sexton at ProPublica, titled, “The Immodest Proposal.” It detailed…

Medium is a place for people to share their stories, ideas, and perspectives. We are looking for a talented designer to help tell the Medium story. We are putting together a world-class Marketing team here at Medium. …

The story behind the visual identity of Medium’s newest publication. — “The Development Set” is quite a mouthful. It is also rather unwieldy as a publication name to design a logo around—two stubby 3-letter words bracketing the behemoth “D-e-v-e-l-o-p-m-e-n-t.” This didn’t deter us, though, from setting out to create a strong and distinctive visual brand for the new Medium publication. From…

*Medium has since updated their branding. The latest guidelines are here. Ever since Medium first launched in beta three years ago, we have sported a logo that is a big, bold, black-and-white slab-serif M, from the font Stag. While simple, elegant, and strong, this Stag M proved rather inflexible as…

Feel free to copy/paste whichever one you find the most appetizing into your Future of Food post on Medium, to brand it as part of the series. —

Billy Does Bushwick Billy could not be less Bushwick, and he knows it. And he knows everyone else in line and at their laptops at Swallow this morning knows it, too. He has the same bi-weekly $14 haircut he’s been sporting since his Boy Scout days back in Little Rock…

Alex and Cristhian — two teens in L.A. — tell us what really happens when Immigration catches you. You’ll totally change your mind about border-crossings after hearing their tale. https://medium.com/matter/the-teen-s-guide-to-surviving-immigration-8dafa225eb5d