Heather Jones's Profile

user-pic
  • Current Job: Deputy Art Director at Best Life Magazine
  • Location: NYC, NY
  • Favorite Typefaces: Clarendon, Kuentsler script, Agfa Pi symbols, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro, anything with a dingbat in the title
  • Favorite Books: Neuromancer, Learning Japanese, The Singularity is Near, How to be a Better Foodie, The New York Colossus, Making Origami Out of A Dollar Bill.
  • Favorite Websites: urbandictionary.com, midtownlunch.com, despair.com, therasterbator.com, nipponham.com (to make hot dog art), skymall.com, stuffwhitepeoplelike.com, BBC’s office speak generator, visualcomplexity.com
  • Posted Popular Mechanics intern to Job Board
    Popular Mechanics magazine is looking for a spring semester intern to workin our NYC office January through May. Someone with a positive, can-doattitude and a hands-on approach to learning will have great opportunitiesto get involved in several key aspects of...
  • Posted Associate Editor to Job Board
    Clarion, the newspaper of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), AFT Local 2334, is hiring an associate editor. As part of a three-person communications team, the associate editor needs to assume significant independent responsibility. In addition to reporting, writing and editing,...
  • Commented on Promotions at Best Life
    woo hoo! love you guys /// HJ...
  • Commented on Thoughts on Democracy
    Hi Leslie...I caught that on the way back from Art Basel too! this one was my favorite: "The _____(noun)______ Spangled ____(noun)______" http://bp2.blogger.com/_OFF-rug06XE/SJCDIVnHT7I/AAAAAAAAAjU/B-VBTakZ0bE/s1600-h/CPB+Fun+w+Democracy+(inside).jpg And don't you think airports are way too under utilized in terms of exhibition spaces? If only LaGuardia...
  • Posted Bizarre and Beautiful... to Grids
    ...was my take on Art Basel Miami this year which I was lucky enough to attend, though I'm still getting used to the 60 degree temperature difference here. If you know nothing or a lot about art, go! Its a...
  • Posted Fall Roundup to What Are You Looking At?
    After a busy month with SPD and AI-AP events, I thought I'd post a few more bits of inspiration I caught in NYC this fall, after the jump...And on a travel note, yours truly is escaping the 37 degrees and...
  • Posted Winter Salon to Grids
    Hi all, these are getting bigger and bigger since we started them over the summer...so come on by if you can after work in midtown on Tuesday, and definitely bring your business cards (p.s. it has nothing to do with...
  • Posted Assistant Photo Editor - Freelance MTV to Job Board
    Hi all, here's another I just got: MTV.com is looking for a self-motivated, assistant photo editor with at least 2-3 years photo editing experience with an online portfolio demonstrating these skills. Applicants be prepared to present examples of prior retouching...
  • Posted Interactive Designer - Freelance, MTV Digital to Job Board
    Hi all, this is from a friend of mine who manages the design team over at MTV:MTV.com is looking for a self-motivated, highly creative, interactive designer with at least one year Web experience and formal design training to join our...
  • Posted In The Mood For Votin' to Grids
    As the N.Y. Times aptly put it yesterday, after almost a "Year Of Sitting On The Edge of Our Seats" I thought I'd post a bit of a tension release on the eve of the big day. On the jump...
  • Commented on Imitation is Flattery?
    Done Darrell, send me your lunch and I'll plate it right up;)...
  • Posted Imitation is Flattery? to Grids
    Hi all, quick question...I illustrated the logo on the left a few years ago for a small burger shop in Brooklyn, it's copyrighted on all display / menus / collateral. I got a text the other night from the NY...
  • Posted 3 quick bits to What Are You Looking At?
    Hi all, 3 quickies before I head out to New York Magazine's 40th anniversary party, congratulations all!1  Here's a shot from Tuesday's Paper to Pixels event...(l to r) yours truly, Brandon Kavulla, Paul Schrynemakers, Ian Adelman and Jeremy LaCroix. After...
  • Commented on Great Minds...
    So were there corn-on-the-cob appetizers out there Sunday night? Or lots of corn-fed jokes? I'd like to see some photographic evidence;) /// HJ...
  • Commented on Feeling Presidential?
    This is pretty funny, not sure if lower back tattoos will be the rage but I'm sure the online election process will be bigger and better in 2012 ! My teeth are clinched too for tonight...if anyone in NY wants...
  • Posted Spaceship Earth 1 to What Are You Looking At?
    Hello from the Great White North. The land of the gentle red maple leaf. The "We-Walk-Quietly-While-You-Carry-A-Big-Stick" country. Dusting off my layman's French and giving Quebecois a go, on this brisk 32 degree night I'm actually writing about something still in NYC: Starting With...
  • Commented on Relax Your Mind and Let Your Conscience Be Free
    This is fantastic Wyatt, and happy 15th Vibe! I think along with Musical Chairs maybe we should have an archive or a big "Where Are They Now" infomap of where people have moved around in publishing over the years. I've...
  • Commented on SPD@FIT: New York Magazine at 40
    Great night, good job guys! but just curious...kinda missed the Michael Picon / Chris Dougherty team that was there for 5+ years, or at least a note addressing 9-11 story when they were there, anybody else? I noticed that cover...
  • Commented on AC/DC's Elegant Form
    thanks for posting that Paul, I'm intrigued. I never thought Tool's Forty-Six and Two cook look so balanced, so peaceful;) /// HJ...
  • Posted All Over The Map to What Are You Looking At?
    "Excuse me, where is Orchid Street? A waifish young lass asked me in the Lower East Side the other day. "You mean Orchard Street," as I pointed her to midtown. Feeling the end of summer doldrums and the only one...
  • Posted Beautiful Losers to What Are You Looking At?
    "Um I'd like one ticket for, Beautiful Losers." I went warily to this documentary last night, thinking it was going to be another rags-to-riches story of a hip art clique, complete with footage of the cool parties you could never...
  • Commented on "I've Retreated to a Safer Place"
    Thanks Matt! I think I just found my new wallpaper. Don't you think Geosimulation should set some of those wi-fi / sprawl maps to music? /// HJ...
  • Commented on Art Directors vs. Illustrators: A Throwdown
    Apparently none of you challenging me on the mechanical bull know I have 14 years of horseriding experience under my belt. Bring it kids... Ill be the one in the Daisy Dukes....
  • Commented on "Rolling Stone" to Shrink
    Two more...our faithful downtown newspaper Village Voice (almost square) and laddy mag Maxim has downsized too. Is anyone else still worried about, um, shrinkage?...
  • Favorited New Favorite Magazine: FOAM on Grids
  • Commented on "Rolling Stone" to Shrink
    Very sad, goodbye to an institution. Looks like they just broke the news to Robert Downey, Jr. too. /// HJ...
  • Commented on Sir, You Dropped Your Vagina
    Don't sweat it BK, as far as the intelligible blogposts...I got your um, back! That shot was lovingly photographed by Burcu Avsar and Zach Desart. Good job! /// HJ (PS. This doesn't mean I'm not going to stop perfecting my...
Subscribe to feed Recent Actions from Heather Jones

Not following anyone