Undark Magazine and the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT asked me to turn Long Division: The Persistence of Race Science, Undark's digital series on how science built up the idea of race, into a print magazine. I adapted the series' content and design system into an elegant 116-page, large-format magazine.

The challenge

Long Division was designed to be read on screen, as a series of digital stories with their own design system. The print edition had to feel like a sophisticated magazine in its own right while still reading unmistakably as Undark. That meant carrying a digital system over into print without losing what made the series distinctive.

The approach

I translated the series' colors and typography from screen to page, keeping the Undark style intact. I preserved the signature drop cap that marks Undark's stories, adapted the series' sophisticated visuals for large-format print, and wrote magazine-style headlines so each story worked as a magazine feature rather than a web page.

Results

• A 116-page, large-format print edition of the Long Division series

• Distributed at the Knight Science Journalism Program's 40th anniversary celebration at MIT in April 2023, which brought together more than 250 former fellows, past directors, and other journalists