Fireside Quarterly

NYC & BOSTON, 2018 — After some years I took over Fireside as publisher and art director, and implemented a redesign of the online magazine site. The visual design is meant to be minimal and simple—it focuses the reader’s attention entirely on the stories and original artwork, and provides a clean, simple, and responsive reading interface.

I also redesigned the magazine’s workflow and tech stack using Hugo, a static site generator, and Github Pages as the host. I designed an editorial workflow in which editors work on markdown-formatted text files and push commits to a github repository, which in turn kicks off deployment onto the live site.

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Rethinking the editorial workflow using software development tools and techniques allowed me to publish into a broader set of channels, and in 2018 I started publishing Fireside Quarterly, a premium print product containing all of the material destined to be published online.

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Fireside Quarterly features two-color printing throughout, three triple-foldout full color illustrations, and bespoke art direction for each issue—both in print and when the material makes it onto the website.

Working with a single source in a software repository allowed me to adapt the stories and illustrations to take advantage of the unique properties of each medium. This led to many delightful — and award-winning — one-off, highly art-directed implementations of editorial content.