Laurinaitis Father-Son feature - Portrait shoot with Joe (former pro wrestler) and James (current St. Louis Rams NFL player) Laurinaitis
Cy Unseen Feature - Feature intro setting up story on small-market Marlins' pitcher Josh Johnson. Portrait shoot theme was to shoot from behind with negative space to play off the unknown "unseen" Cy Young performing pitcher.
Home Sweet Home Photo Essay - Photo Essay focusing on NFL free-agents that returned to their former NFL teams. Theme was based around photographing the athletes in home-town settings.
Corruption of College Football
Back to Back - This feature spread was the intro to the Magazine's Annual listing of Top 50 MLB players. Albert Pujols was named #1 for the second year in a row. The Editor wanted to play up the Hall-of-Fame panel of voters. I was challenged to create a visual layout of interest using a large list of names on the spread.
Heisman From Hell - Intro to feature profiling past NFL failures of Heisman Trophy winners. Photo composition created in Photoshop and type added in InDesign.
NFL Top 100 feature intro spread
NCAA Hoops Tournament Bracket
Great Debates: Best Baseball Team - Feature section intro setting up the Magazine's All-Time Baseball Team selections by position.
(R)Evolution feature - Intro setting up feature about the evolution of the size of a NFL lineman. I researched the famous "evolution of man" posters to set overall theme for background. Photo composition in PhotoShop and InDesign.
Recipe For Success - A magazine feature that breaks down the "recipe" for building the perfect NFL dynasty team. The X's & O's were added in PhotoShop.
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