Point Five Founder and Creative Director Alissa Levin will present the workshop Small Mags, Big Ideas  on July 12th  at ICON10: The Illustration Conference in Detroit.

APRIL 04, 2018

Congratulations to our clients and collaborators! We are all Society of Publication Designers Print Merit Winners from the  53rd Annual Design Competition. Our work for Rockefeller University’s Seek Magazine was awarded for overall issue design, cover art by The Voorhes; Melinda Beck’s work for Columbia Journalism Review for illustration; and Selman Design’s illustration and lettering for PCMA Convene for design.

We recently completed the branding and design for the Rockefeller University Press, including their logo and identity system, as well as the design of their three research journals.

 

We designed materials for A First Amendment for All? Free Expression in the Age of Inequality, a symposium with the Columbia Law Review, the Knight First Amendment Institute, and the Center for Constitutional Governance. 

Columbia Journalism Review was nominated for the 2018 National Magazine Award in the Single-Topic Issue category. On the cover: Inauguration Day, Washington, DC. Portrait by Carolyn Drake for Magnum Photos. Washington Post special section featuring an illustration by Chris Buzelli and photograph by Matt McClain.

NOVEMBER 01, 2017

Point Five designed the research reports Liberals, Rogues and Enablers: The International Order for the 21st Century, and Keeping Up Appearances, as part of an going series for this non-profit.

We designed Middlebury’s “Critical Conversations,” an ongoing series of events that encourage the campus community to engage deeply with issues of inclusivity and free expression. We worked with Aleksandar Savić to create a set of original illustrations for the project.

Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Summer/Autumn 2016, illustration by Vivienne Flesher

Congratulations to Vivienne Flesher! Her work for Harvard Divinity Bulletin is featured in this year’s American Illustration 36.

 

We launched a new site for Commonweal, enhancing their diverse content covering religion, politics, books and culture.

We’re proud to introduce Seek, the new science research magazine from The Rockefeller University.

DECEMBER 03, 2016

In honor of International Day of Persons with Disabilities, NYU / Tisch School of the Arts presents Heidi Latsky Dance’s installation On Display. Photograph by Amro Arida.

Alissa joined a panel led by Ellen Weinstein on illustration and journalism at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and Columbia Journalism School.

OCTOBER 06, 2016

Working with animator Francesca Cattaneo, we produced this installment of Nautilus’ Spark of Science series.

MAY 31, 2016

We designed the first special print edition of CJR, celebrating the centennial of the Pulitzers.

Our redesigned site for Democracy: A Journal of Ideas received three fantastic honors. Hats off to the editorial team at Democracy and to our collaborators at Tierra Innovation. We could not be prouder to be a part of this team.

APRIL 20, 2016

We are thrilled to announce the launch of tricycle.org.

MARCH 10, 2016

We received two honors from the Society of Publication Designers for print design and digital illustration.

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Our campaign for Heidi Latsky Dance’s On Display installation was live on the Times Square Jumbotron.

Nautilus was nominated for a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in the Literature, Science and Politics category. We also won ASME’s Award for Best Style and Design  magazine cover.

We’re honored to be a part of The Paris Review’s storied design history. The AIGA’s blog Eye on Design published a piece on how the literary magazine has managed to stay relevant for over 60 years. The answer: Redesign, Redesign, Redesign.