client: The New York Times
Work:  Read Like the Wind
art direction: Matt Dorfman, Tonya Douraghy
date:  2024 -  2026

weekly illustrations for “Read Like the Wind”, a feature published in the books section of the Sunday edition of the @nytimes
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The challenge has been to create illustrations based on how contributing writers describe their experiences of discovering books. My illustrations and the feature are not so much about the books themselves, but more to highlight the link between books and people, spaces, moments, and sensations.
As Matt Dorfman, the art director, describes, “the way books often find people is not a linear process, and this feature aims to highlight how life experience and circumstances often guide books toward discovery.”

twist on twists












sweet, sensitive boys










loveable dingbat characters











good hosts










changing your life, no matter the cost











Starving Artists











Celebrating Friendship











Two Books About Finding a Home










Headed for Hollywood











Ballet and Opera











Retellings: Reimagining Old Stories











Sun-Splashed Novels











The Inner-Transcendentalist










Birthday introspection










Dual storylines











Shout-It-From-the-Mountaintop











Double Lives











A Real-Life Brilliant Friend











American Dioramas











Key West










Brushes with fame











Books for contemplation











Books for cluttered minds 











Rock´n´Roll Muses 











Hotel life











Going Dutch











Hot summer reaading











Literally sex and violence











All that jazz











High Anxiety











Money, money











Novels Like Letters











Twilight











Short, Sweet and Stylish











Nun Sense











Happy marriages











Old Flames











Good Talk











These Two Books Ask, Was the Movie Better?











Re-appraisals











Autobiographical novels










Karaoke books











Novels that take place in a single day











Going Gray Gracefully











Thrillers for the Nervous











2 Books for Rebels










Poets' memoirs











New York Books










Uncomfortably Close Families










Bestowed by Fate










Mood Swings










Scandalized Readers











Lovable Unlikable People











Social Withdrawal











books found via other books










From Down Under










Books Set in Italy

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