Ed Johnson Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Freelance design and art direction — clients include The Atavist Magazine, Politico, Worldquant, Observer Media Group, Octavian Media, The Council of State Governments, and more.

Greater New York City Area

Managing four-person art department and budget in creation of 120,000-circulation monthly and quarterly magazines covering financial markets and global economics, as well as the art/photography and video for daily news website. Designing covers, features, and assigning illustration and photography from around the world while helping set editorial planning and storytelling. Led brand/logo redesign and website redesign in 2017. Led team through restructuring to digital-only publishing in April 2018, as well as numerous iterations on email newsletters.

Helped lead creative on redesigns of nationally distributed print and digital magazine products. Created web and print information graphics for daily and monthly deadlines, assigned and art directed illustrations, built templates in InDesign. Designed FOB and feature stories for print edition. Brainstormed and designed/wireframed interactive features and digital templates. Promoted from Deputy Art Director to Art Director Fall 2014.

New York, Ny

Leading art and production department in the creation of two weekly newspapers (The New York Observer and Commercial Observer), as well as monthly and quarterly magazine supplements. Managing three staff designers and photo editor, as well as numerous freelancers. Assigning illustration, photography and designing pages. Led creative on launch of newspaper redesign and new digital PDF newsletter.

New York, Ny

Starting as a freelancer designing editorial products, moved on to supervise production department and lead creative/design direction at busy publishing company. Managed eight designers and copy editors in creation of six weekly newspapers, three bi-monthly newspapers and two monthly magazines, as well as creative collateral for several yearly events and marketing needs. Duties included editorial layout, commissioning illustration and advertising and marketing design. Led creative on launch of new newspaper. Redesigned arts-focused newspaper.