Past Event
Thursday, October 10 2019
6:30–8:30 pm
Is it me you’re looking for?
Thursday, October 10 2019
6:30–8:30 pm
Is it me you’re looking for?
An inside look into how some of New York’s leading art directors choose and evaluate editorial collaborators.
Enough hemming and hawing, toiling and submitting—waiting with anticipation but never hearing back and never knowing why. Four art directors of leading New York publications share their process for commissioning and evaluating visuals for editorial pieces, offering a rare glimpse at how the imagery we encounter in magazines, newspapers, and online comes to exist. Informative for aspiring art directors, those looking to compare best practices, illustrators, photographers, form makers, and anyone generally curious about this process, this event will shed some light onto the journey an editorial commission takes from conception to publication—and the various detours it can take in between.
Starting with short presentations, each speaker will walk us through a highlight and lowlight from their careers thus far. This will be followed by an extended Q&A, so come prepared to have your gnawing questions answered and leave enlightened.
With experience working at publications such as The New York Times, GQ, NBC News, the New Yorker, and Splice, these art directors bring together a diversity of experience and perspective that they’re eager to share.
Event Series: Work in Progress
Is it me you’re looking for? is part of the Work in Progress event series. These events are focused on the creative process, personal development, and professional development. They aim to give a peek behind the curtain and expose failure as a valuable experience.
Graphics by: Zipeng Zhu
Schedule
- 6:30 pm Doors open & check-in
- 7:00 pm Event begins
- 8:30 pm Event ends
Tickets
- Members $10.00
- Non-Members $20.00
- Students $5.00
- Student non-members $7.00
Speakers
Deanna Donegan, The New York Times Parenting
Deanna is the Senior Visual Editor for The New York Times Parenting. She has also worked at the Times as an Art Director on the Digital News Design team, and was previously at The New Yorker magazine. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts where she still occasionally visits to guest critique. She grew up in San Diego and is currently based in Queens.
Shakeil Greeley, Splice
Shakeil is a Visual Designer at Splice, working on editorial projects spanning their blog, social channels, and video. He is focused on finding new ways to make the world more beautiful, thoughtful, and engaging, through deep collaboration and a curiosity for new media. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania’s Visual Studies program in 2015, he worked at GQ Magazine on digital projects ranging from design and art direction to writing and strategy. He has been working with clients in music, art, and emerging technologies in a variety of creative capacities for the past 7 years. He is based in Brooklyn, and hails from the Pacific Northwest and Philadelphia.
Photo credit: Matt Martin
Kara Haupt, NBC News Digital
Kara is the Art Director for NBC News Digital where she oversees illustration and photography for nbcnews.com. Before NBC News, she was the art director for newyorker.com and a Design Lead on the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Neeta Patel, The New Yorker
Neeta is a graphic designer and art director at The New Yorker magazine. Previously, she was the 2016 – 17 Graphic Design Fellow at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, based at Taliesin West, in Arizona. She received her undergraduate degree in Visual Arts and Computer Science at Princeton University, and is currently based in Brooklyn.