Selected spreads from feature stories designed at Cosmopolitan magazine.

Cosmo’s annual C-Suite feature honors women of color at the C-suite level – a demographic that has been historically underrepresented in corporate America. It was integral that we include portraits of the women we were recognizing, but with a range of photos from different photographers, we were posed with the challenge of making our honorees live in the same visual world. We decided to treat the portraits with a similar black and white treatment, but add visual interest through incorporating a gradient texture, custom type for each honoree's name, and the inclusion of graphic shapes, which also helped break up large bodies of text. This system was extended to the digital build of this story on the Cosmopolitan website.

For months, dozens of unwitting birth workers coached a supposedly expecting client named Kaitlyn Braun through a series of grotesque labor scenarios. Cosmopolitan documented a sprawling international court case that emerged when it came to light that Kaitlyn had, in fact, never been pregnant. We developed a system using a blend of stock photography and patterns to depict stages of pregnancy without representing specific individuals.

Credits
Design: Bethany Rennard, Kara Miller, Mary Fama, Jose Fernandez
Creative Director: Mallory Roynon

Bethany Rennard

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