The Atlantic Taps Creative Leadership | People on the Move

[caption id="attachment_171101" align="alignright" width="150"] Luise Stauss[/caption] The Atlantic named Luise Stauss as its first director of photography this week.  Stauss, who will be joining the recently-expanded art team led by creative director Peter Mendelsund, will be based out of The Atlantic’s New York office and will work to grow the magazine’s photography contributions.  “As we emphasize quality and aesthetic sophistication, our goal is to make The Atlantic an industry leader in photography. Luise is the exact right person to lead this effort,” said editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg in a statement.  Previously, Stauss helped launch T Magazine, later becoming a senior photo editor at The New York Times Magazine. And in 2014, she co-founded photography consultancy Stauss&Quint. Additionally, she has served as the director of photography at Modern Farmer, art director at AR Media and was a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts. [caption id="attachment_171103" align="alignright" width="150"] Kate Watts[/caption] Elsewhere at The Atlantic, start-up strategy and design firm Faire Design was recently acquired and its founder Kate Watts was tapped as the new president of Atlantic 57, The Atlantic’s creative consulting agency. She will report to publisher and CRO Hayley Romer.   Watts founded Faire Design in January 2018, but prior to that, she spent nearly a decade at global agency Huge, most recently serving as its U.S. president. Joining her at Atlantic... Continue reading at 'Folio Magazine'

[ Folio Magazine | 2019-09-12 20:19:23 UTC ]
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