AVIVA MICHAELOV

aviva michaelov art direction & design

Op-Ed at 40 Video Producer

To mark the 40th anniversary of The New York Times Op-Ed page, I produced a short film on the political illustrations that appeared there. Written and narrated by Steven Heller, the film begins in the age of Nixon caricatures and cold-war-era Russian bears, covers the response to 9-11 and the gulf wars, and ends in today's era of interactive displays and animated GIFs.

Sunday Review Covers Art direction and Design

Sunday Review Cover: Relax! You'll Be More Productive — Illustration by Golden Cosmos

Sunday Review Cover: My U.Va. Story — Illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

Sunday Review Cover: Learning To See Data — Illustration by Hvass and Hannibal. See accompanying animated art.

Sunday Review Cover: China's Economic Empire — Illustration by Victo Ngai

Sunday Review Cover: Living With Less. A Lot Less. — Illustration by Maxwell Holyoke-Hirsch

Sunday Review Cover: How We Learned To Kill — Illustration by Brian Stauffer

Sunday Review Cover: The Joy of Quiet — Illustration by Vivienne Flesher

Sunday Review Cover: Where Did Global Warming Go? — Illustration by Mark Pernice

Sunday Review Cover: The Fall This Summer — Illustration by Geoff McFetridge

Sunday Review Cover: Two-State Illusion — Illustration by Josh Cochran

Sunday Review: Hiding From Scary Ideas — Illustration by Eleanor Taylor

Sunday Review Cover: Class Struggle in the Sky — Illustration by Javier Jaén

op-ed poetry 2011 — Illustration by Eleanor Davis

spread — An interactive online feature, offering a pilot's-eye view en route from London to Tokyo. A collaboration with Alexandra Zsigmond. Illustration by Carl Burton

op-ed poetry 2010 — Illustration by Henrik Drescher

Selections of notable opinion art for: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

The Year in Pictures, 2014 Design

Sunday Review: Year in Pictures — Photograph by Daniel Berehulak

Op-Art Art direction and design

My Childhood Pet — For the blog Menagerie, we asked 10 artists to recall a special creature from their early lives. With illustrations by Roman Muradov, Carson Ellis, Tim Lahan, Jing Wei, Jon McNaught and more.

Spring: Shirin Neshat — The Seasons: Spring. I commissioned a video from Shirin Neshat, who took inspiration from the Arab Spring. Watch the video.

Thanks, Maurice — A tribute to Maurice Sendak, with illustrations from Art Spiegelman, Tomi Ungerer, Gary Taxali and more.

Autumn: Anselm Kiefer — The Seasons: Autumn by Anselm Kiefer

Scenes From the Tsunami — Three Japanese artists respond to the devastation from the 2011 tsunami. See feature with works by Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Yuichi Yokoyama, and Tatsuro Kiuchi

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Aviva Michaelov grew up in Tel Aviv and graduated from Parsons School of Design. She is design director of The New Yorker magazine. Through 2016, she was the art director of the Opinion pages at the New York Times, leading the design of the Op-Ed page and Sunday Review section.

Her work at The New York Times has been recognized by the Society of Newspaper Design.

aviva [at] inforeignland.com