Cult Classic Magazine Launching a platform for underground artistry.

Role Co-Founder & Art Director
Year 2018-2020

Special Thanks
Justin Morris
Kamp Grizzly
Fisk
Brown Printing
Carson Schubert

Cult Classic is a publication dedicated to highlighting underground creative communities across the world. From brand identity, editorial strategy and release parties to photoshoots, interviews and distribution, I helped run a small team to get the publication off the ground and have watched it grow to 10k followers in its first year. Design partner is Fisk

• Three covers per issue. Three issues per year. One theme per issue.

.com Cult Classic Website

• Site development by Romance

“This is the DNA of the brand.”
Nic Galway, SVP of Adidas Global Design on partnering with Cult on Samba shoe seeding, captured by a network of rising photographers.

SPECIAL THANKS AIDEN CULLEN, NOLIS ANDERSON & JULIAN BERMAN

Partnering with galleries, brands & venues to celebrate featured creatives in their hometowns.

SPECIAL THANKS FISK GALLERY

Launch Key City Strategy
In order to bring meaning and purpose to the digital community that the magazine garnered, each issue of Cult Classsic

Content Art & Photo Direction
In issue two, we wanted to explore the fringe communities of Chicago’s creative class. After discovering Oscar Chaves online, we provided them with a classic Samba to style and reimagine. Art and photo direction with Oscar in their Chicago studio.

Thank you to everyone who made Cult possible.

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