COSMOPOLITAN FEATURE STORIES
At Cosmopolitan, I developed editorial design systems for long-form storytelling features. I focused on creating intentional layouts with thoughtful typography and visual excitement to balance style with storytelling—ensuring each design meaningfully engaged readers.
At Cosmopolitan, I developed editorial design systems for long-form storytelling features. I focused on creating intentional layouts with thoughtful typography and visual excitement to balance style with storytelling—ensuring each design meaningfully engaged readers.
Credits
Design: Bethany Rennard, Kara Miller, Mary Fama, Jose Fernandez
Creative Director: Mallory Roynon
Design: Bethany Rennard, Kara Miller, Mary Fama, Jose Fernandez
Creative Director: Mallory Roynon
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.
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For months, dozens of unwitting birth workers coached a client named Kaitlyn Braun through a series of staged labor scenarios—despite her never actually being pregnant. Cosmopolitan documented the sprawling international court case that unfolded once this shocking truth came to light. To visually navigate this complex story, we developed a design system combining stock photography and patterns to represent the stages of pregnancy without depicting any specific individuals.
