Unheard Voices

Unheard Voices is a two-sided editorial created to give voice and visual identity to the personal and collaborative work of two female photographers. Each side begins with a curation of work representing the artists’ respective styles with their collaborative pieces meeting in the middle.

I was in my third year at the University of the Arts London’s Chelsea College of Arts when we were given the assignment titled ‘Unheard Voices’. It was an open brief to give a voice to the unheard—it could be anyone, and the execution could be anything.

Though I haven’t had much opportunity to explore editorial design in my career, it is one of my favorite types of design and one of my strongest skills. I chose to create a double-sided editorial magazine featuring two photographers I attended the Columbus College of Art & Design with whom I admire to this day.

The magazine flips in the center with the artists’ full-bleed portraits of eachother. I created an additional video of the entire magazine as a bonus digital asset, which was actually my first experience with video editing.

Luckily, their voices are no longer ‘unheard’. Annie Noelker has worked with countless celebrities at the LA Times and Hana Mendel has been featured in publications including the New Yorker, New York Magazine, Wall Street Journal, GQ, Pitchfork, WIRED, Vice, and Fast Company.