Biography
Creative Director/
Graphic Designer
Overview
Suzanne is a Brooklyn-based designer interested in the ways graphic design can create clarity, spark curiosity and generate wonder. She’s passionate about color, photography, illustration and language. She’s committed to strategically shaping stories with intention and an eye for beauty.
She was influenced by the vibrancy and free spirit of her childhood home in Brazil, with its tropical palettes and an affinity for pleasure. Her personal sensibility is connected to nature from her time spent dodging snakes in the Amazon and jumping waves in the Atlantic. She developed a love for architecture and history as a middle schooler in London. In San Francisco, she studied design at the California College of the Arts, where she learned to prototype ideas and speak design.
Photo by Julia Hembree Hi!
Olá!
Allô!
Other Projects
The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History
Living Together: A Circle of Friends Builds a Community
Wide Open Spaces: New Ways to Embrace the Landscape
Meet Me in the Middle: Fixing a Hole in the Housing Market
The Outdoor Toddler Activity Book
The Rainy Day Toddler Activity Book
Grateful Together
Conquer Anxiety Workbook for Teens
Dedication
For Antonie
de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince is the first book that I remember reading on my own. It astonished my seven-year-old self, giving me a lifelong love of reading. It also showed me that cultivating imagination, noticing beauty, and tending to love are just as vital to our survival.
Afterword
The work displayed in this portfolio was selected to show a range of design sensibilities. For more recent work, please visit Behance. Suzanne is currently the Creative Director at Dwell Magazine, a home design and architecture media company.
“Let the beauty
we love be
what we do
There are
hundreds of ways
to kneel & kiss
the ground.”
Acknowledgements
The book covers shown here were photographed by Andrew McCaul, who kindly applied his craft and care to each shot. Thank you to the many colleagues, photographers, illustrators, and trusted editors -those savants of written word, who helped make the work the best it could be.
The same applies to the friends who patiently caught typos, awkward sentence structures, and muddled ideas. You know who you are.