Paper is a New York-centric magazine that covers fashion, art, music, and film under the broad umbrella known as ‘downtown culture’. Founded in 1982, Paper is an original brand. Its outsider editorial voice and experimental format—for years it had a different masthead for each issue—was a precursor to many of the art, fashion, and hipster magazines which saturate newsstands today.
I was brought on under a new creative direction by Peter Buchanan-Smtih, where I worked with him on the implementation of the redesign. Our challenge was to pay homage to Paper’s rebellious roots while infusing a more modern, sophisticated sensibility as Paper matured, expanded, and reinvented itself as the voice of a new generation of style-mavens and culture warriors.
Art director: Peter Buchanan-Smith
