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Dispatches Magazine (2021)

Design direction for the first issue of Dispatches, titled “After Empire.” Dispatches is a Berkeley-based literary and arts magazine that focuses on publishing diverse perspectives about a central topic from contributors around the world, a concept that served as the starting point for the visual language of the publication.

Design direction: Gabe Ferreira
3D illustrations: Rafael Eifler
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Gabe Ferreira: Dispatches Magazine — Selected spreads in mid-air.Gabe Ferreira: Dispatches Magazine — Dispatches section opener.Gabe Ferreira: Dispatches Magazine — David Reid’s “A History of the History of Empire.”Gabe Ferreira: Dispatches Magazine — Photo essay, pages 2 and 3.Gabe Ferreira: Dispatches Magazine — Photo essay, pages 4 and 5.Gabe Ferreira: Dispatches Magazine — Sky O’Brien’s “Vigil in Perth,” illustrated by Charlotte Ratel.Gabe Ferreira: Dispatches Magazine — Table of contents.Gabe Ferreira: Dispatches Magazine — Interview with Zineb Sedira, page 1.Gabe Ferreira: Dispatches Magazine — Interview with Zineb Sedira, pages 2 and 3.Gabe Ferreira: Dispatches Magazine — Jesse Larner’s “Confederate Nostalgia,” illustrated by Charlotte Ratel and Samuel Pasquier.Gabe Ferreira: Dispatches Magazine — Typographic story opener for the Jeff Hewitt’s fiction piece, “The Kid.”Gabe Ferreira: Dispatches Magazine — Poetry by Kayla Ephros.Gabe Ferreira: Dispatches Magazine — Reviews section.Gabe Ferreira: Dispatches Magazine — Legs Get Higher.Gabe Ferreira: Dispatches Magazine — Marius Sosnowsky’s “On the Road in the Time of Covid.”Gabe Ferreira: Dispatches Magazine — “Intersections” and “Thoughts & Prayers.”

Dispatches takes advantage of its lack of advertising — the back cover features a word-finder that promotes the topics and themes of the following issue.

Gabe Ferreira: Dispatches Magazine — Cover and back cover. Photo by Alexi Hobbs.Gabe Ferreira: Dispatches Magazine — Selected spreads.

Each issue of Dispatches includes one of seven postcards, chosen at random. Postcards were commissioned from (or submitted by) artists Charlotte Ratel, Samuel Pasquier, Angie Samblotte, Tyler Yin, Veronica Jacome, Michaela Guerrera, and Bella Sosis.

Gabe Ferreira: Dispatches Magazine — Postcards.