Hello.
Matt Dorfman is an internationally recognized designer and illustrator. He is the art director of the New York Times Book Review and former art director of the New York Times Op-Ed page. Additionally, he maintains a one-person office specializing in work for publishers, film, theater and various cultural institutions; The name of which, Metalmother, was determined largely on account of this song getting stuck in his head for a long period of time in his early twenties. There is no deeper read as to its meaning.
He was awarded the Richard Gangel Award for Art Direction from the Society of Illustrators in 2022.
CLIENTS:
The New York Times / Serial / Fresh Air with Terry Gross / The New Yorker / Penguin / Pantheon / The Washington Post / Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Knopf / Random House / New York Magazine / Vintage + Anchor Books / New Directions / The Atlantic / Playboy / Time / Vanity Fair / Esquire / Scribner / Verso / W.W. Norton + also others.
SPEAKING:
ADC / Judging a Book by its Cover (Watch here)
Blue Cadet / AIGA Philadelphia
SOI/SPD: Wearing Two Hats (Watch here)
DSVC March Meeting: Stress Positions
Type Director's Club - Book Night
Syracuse University Illustration Symposium, Sept. '14
Portrait by Yann Kebbi