Mary Thiesen

North Carolina Literary Review, No. 8 - Front cover. I served as freelance art director of this 200-page literary journal for four years and later continued to contribute as a freelance designer. From its inception, NCLR sought to combine a high level of academic scholarship with strong publication design. In 1999, under my tenure as art director, NCLR 8 earned the Best Journal Design award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. http://www.nclr.ecu.edu/

North Carolina Literary Review, prose spread - Two-page spread from NCLR 8. The 200-page scholarly journal was printed in black only, which challenged its designers to present effective visual solutions in a limited palette. http://www.nclr.ecu.edu/

North Carolina Literary Review, No. 14 – Front cover. After serving as the freelance art director of NCLR for four years, I stepped back from that responsibility but continued to design some of its covers and content. For the fourteenth edition of NCLR, photographer Ann Ehringhaus contributed a dozen images for potential cover art. I selected four – two dramatically-colored sunsets and two brightly-hued images of the sky and sparkling water of the coast at mid-day. I juxtaposed these images on the outer and inside cover of NCLR; view the cover spreads at http://bit.ly/2djTLIf. The background images are details from Ehringhaus's photos that I posterized and tweaked via Photoshop.

North Carolina Literary Review Online 2013, article spread. Beginning in 2012, NCLR began publishing journal editions online, as supplements to printed volumes. This is the intro spread to "Stuart Wright: The Badger of Old Street." View additional pages here, http://bit.lyh/2dSK6a6.

North Carolina Literary Review Online 2013, article spread. Beginning in 2012, NCLR began publishing journal editions online, as supplements to printed volumes. This page spread is from "Stuart Wright: The Badger of Old Street." View additional pages here, http://bit.lyh/2dSK6a6.