︎︎︎ Nautilus Magazine

A science magazine stringing together culture, philosophy and art.

I joined when the website was still in its developmental stages. The vision was cast by a small team on 6th Avenue in Manhattan: to create a magazine—not just a website or blog—that treated art and philosophy with the same seriousness as the science.

Though the idea of a quarterly print issue wouldn’t come up for another year and a half, this publication always had the heart of a magazine. Releasing weekly installments of 4 to 6 stories online and structuring each month around a theme. The website design was created around this concept, with fresh perspectives on science and culture every month, brought to life through first class illustration and art direction. When I first met Len in a modest conference room in the garment district, he laid out the idea and plan, and I didn’t hesitate to say yes. He had already begun talks with with Point Five on the formulating the art direction,

and soon we met with Code and Theory to develop a robust design for the website.

Concepts and work in progress

Within the first year or so we had printed some limited run promotional booklets with some of our stories as a means for attending conferences and events and providing something for people to take with them. This was met with such enthusiasm the publisher began to consider if Nautilus could support a print quarterly. Alyssa and the team at Point Five were quick to support and develop a structure which would bring the stories being told online to live on paper.

Editor in Chief: Michael Segal Design Consultant: Alyssa Levin, Point Five Design Art Direction: Len Small, Francesco Izzo Design: Point Five, Nicholas Garber