My Work Celebrated in New York Times Op-Ed Retrospective

The New York Times is celebrating its 175th anniversary this year and posted an article online today about the history of the Op-Ed page, sharing the page's design milestones. The Op-Ed page is a newspaper’s home for opinion articles written by people other than the paper’s editors, ranging from subject matter experts to famous and noteworthy people. I’m very pleased that my work as an Art Director at The New York Times is among the page designs featured here.
 

“I was given the task of illustrating two Op-Ed articles about the Anti-Defamation League. One was in support of the organization, which had been founded to combat antisemitism and other forms of bigotry; the other took issue with its actions. It’s not easy to illustrate articles that represent opposing views on complicated topics without leaning into tropes.

I decided to approach the challenge through design, arranging the text into the positive and negative shapes of the Star of David while maintaining the paper’s traditional column grid. At the time, our art department had only a handful of Macintosh computers, making this a revolutionary approach.”

You can see more of my New York Times Op-Ed page designs here. 

 

 

 

 

My Work at European Design Festival Show

I’m pleased to let you know that starting June 6th, my work is being featured in the Eccentricityexhibition, part of the European Design Festival 2025 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The exhibition includes my design for Prljavo Kazalište’s LP record, covers created for Danas and Time magazines, and my OP-ED page designs for The New York Times.

 

European Design Festival 2025 is taking place in Ljubljana, and is organized by the Brumen Foundation. One of the central events of the Festival is the exhibition Eccentricity – Design From the Off-Centre, which explores contemporary design and the historical legacy of design in the former Yugoslav republics through the thematic lens of radical and unconventional design approaches. These approaches deliberately break established standards, challenge or even invert our perceptions of what design and visual communication are.

 

The exhibition concept revolves around two related notions – eccentricity and off-centre – to simultaneously express both the nature of the creative practices showcased and the position of our design cultures in relation to the so-called centres, to what is often uncritically accepted as the source, model, or mainstream of design throughout history and today. In other words, rather than positioning ourselves in relation to undeniably strong (“Western”) traditions of typography, posters, illustration, book design, advertising, and the like, this exhibition confronts us with works defined by strong concepts and provocative communication gestures. These are realized across a broad spectrum of media and approaches, all aiming to understand design as a reflective and discursive practice – one that, beyond métier and skill, has something to say about communication itself, the social context in which it emerges, the public space it inhabits, the ripples it creates – and, above all, about ourselves.

 

The exhibition includes works by designers, studios, and artists such as Mihajlo Arsovski, Boris Bućan, Dora Bilić & Tina Mueller, Vanja Cuculić, Sanja Bachrach Kristofić & Mario Krištofić, Branko Bačanović Bambi, Ferenc Barat, Jože Brumen, Lana Cavar & Narcisa Vukojević, Eduard Čehovin, Zoran Đukić / ĐKĆ, Bojana Fajmut, Orsat Franković, Damir Gamulin, Grupa Ee, Mirko Ilić, Sanja Iveković, Radmila Jovandić Đapić, Mihajlo Kalabić, Šejla Kamerić, Dalida Karić-Hadžiahmetović, Anur Hadžiomerspahić, Tomato Košir, Dejan Kršić, Tomaž Kržišnik, Miljenko Licul, Boris Ljubičić, Dalibor Martinis, Slobodan Mašić, Studio Imitacija Života, Ira Payer /Superstudio, Studio Sonda, Ranko Novak, Novi Kolektivizam, Zdravko Papič, Nejc Prah, Sanja Iveković, Goran Trbuljak, Tanja Radež, Petja Selan, Slavimir Stojanović, Talent, Trio Sarajevo, Jovan Trkulja, Borut Vild, Matjaž Vipotnik, Ivana Vučić, Marko Vuleta Đukanov, Irena Woelle, Primož Zorko and many others.

 

The author of the Eccentricity exhibition is Marko Golub.