Over the past decade, the online news journal Religion & Politics has doggedly and expansively covered the two topics thought unfit for polite company. We designed a beautiful anthology to celebrate their tenth anniversary.

To celebrate 100 years of Foreign Affairs, we gave the iconic magazine a design refresh.

Point Five and our wonderful collaborators received several honors for our work on Columbia Journalism Review at the Society of Publication Designers 54th Annual Design Competition. Pictured: The Threats Issue, cover and opener art by Melinda Beck.

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 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.

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.

MAY 31, 2016

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

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Rachell Sumpter created this beautiful and ominous image of migrants in Nogales, Mexico for Harvard Divinity Bulletin.

APRIL 02, 2015

Religion & Politics is a Webby Nominee for Religion and Spirituality Website. Nautilus has been nominated for Website of the Year from Society of Publication Designers. And The Yale Law Journal is both a Webby Honoree and a bronze winner from Horizon Interactive Awards  for websites in the Legal category.

Point Five The Washington Spectator cover

“It’s a transformation that shows the power of good design”—Steven Heller reviews the Spectator‘s redesign.

Point Five Religion & Politics website

Religion & Politics celebrates its one year anniversary with a Webby nomination!