Shannon
Motion + illustration | Based in LA.I like stories that are a little offbeat, but still hit home.
This magazine design project interprets the literary universe of Italo Calvino through editorial typography, layout, and spatial pacing. Drawing from the New Yorker article “Marvellous Things” by Merve Emre, the spread explores Calvino’s layered storytelling, recursive structures, and dreamlike logic using print as both medium and metaphor.
I focused on mirroring Calvino’s recursive narrative style through visual rhythm—using repetition, staggered type, column overlaps, and shifting alignments to create a sense of textual movement and instability. Large pull quotes break the structure intentionally, evoking his “stories within stories.” The use of serif and mono-type combinations echoes the contrast between timeless romance and modern literary theory.