The Creative Backstory: Leanne Shapton

The fifth installment in a multipart documentary series exploring the creative backstory behind the life and work of the Art Directors Club Young Guns featuring artist, art director, illustrator, designer, author, and publisher Leanne Shapton. Based in New York City, Leanne, along with photographer Jason Fulford, is the co-founder of J&L Books, an internationally-distributed imprint specializing in art and photography books. She began her career at the National Post where, by the age of 25, she was overseeing and art-directing the daily Avenue page, an award-winning double-page feature covering news and cultural trends.She has subsequently worked as a freelance designer at The New York Times, an editor for an art magazine prototype at Condé Nast, and contributed illustrations to New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, Jane, and Talk. She has designed and illustrated numerous book covers for Knopf, Doubleday, Simon and Schuster and Penguin, and in 2006 Leanne designed the titles and credits for the Oscar-nominated film, The Squid And The Whale.For more, go to http://www.zoom-in.com