Luke Hayman Joins Pentagram’s New York Office

Luke Hayman, the National Magazine Award-winning design director of New York magazine, has joined Pentagram as a partner. He becomes the seventh principal in our New York office, where his first project will be a complete redesign of Time magazine, a collaboration with Pentagram partner Paula Scher that will launch in January 2007.

“From Brill’s Content to his revivification of New York magazine, Luke has set a new standard for publication design, ” says Abbott Miller, partner in our New York office. “Luke’s work fuses the instincts of a great journalist with impeccable craft and panache. He can work across a wide range of disciplines, and Pentagram will provide a new platform for his singular talent.”

Luke Hayman says, “At Pentagram, I get to continue working with editors and publishers to create great magazines, with the opportunity to expand my practice into areas I’ve always loved like identity, exhibition design and new media.”

Paula Scher adds, “Luke’s achievements are amazing, but his career is really just beginning. We’re thrilled that he’ll be pursuing it here at Pentagram.”

Under Luke’s direction, New York received a prestigious National Magazine Award this year for excellence in magazine design. Luke became design director at New York in 2004 with the arrival of editor in chief Adam Moss and was instrumental in restoring the magazine to the prominence of its heyday under founders Clay Felker, Milton Glaser and Walter Bernard.

Prior to his stint at New York Luke was creative director of Travel + Leisure. He has also served as the creative director for Media Central and Brill Media Holdings, where he redesigned Brill’s Content magazine, and he was senior partner and associate creative director in the Brand Integration Group (BIG) of Ogilvy & Mather. Earlier in his career he worked as design director of I.D. magazine, and with Abbott Miller as a senior designer at Design Writing Research, where he worked on print and exhibition projects including the redesign of Architecture magazine and Guggenheim magazine. He is on the board of the Society of Publication Designers.