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Andrew Sondern
︎︎︎ Design
︎︎︎ Art direction
︎︎︎ Illustration
︎︎︎ Design direction

About
I lead a team of nearly 30 art directors and designers, responsible for the design and production of the daily sections of the newspaper. My focus is on systems and standards, illustration, and design direction of non-traditional story forms, enterprise and special presentations. I provide top-level direction, assign projects, and offer hands-on visual and editorial feedback. The work below represents a cross section of my team’s work during my nearly six years as a manager.


An American Story2026
Collaborators: Rachel Buigas-Lopez (art director), Zachary Balcoff (design fellow), Lily Cowper and Albert Sun (graphics).
Part of a four-page pullout section reinterpreting an interactive map showing Americans’ ancestral roots. 





Let’s Talk About Death2026
Collaborators: Rachel Buigas-Lopez  (design and art direction), Susan Hopkins (print editor), Alice Cian (art direction), Xiao Hua Yang (artist).
Selected pages from a section of service journalism, comprising an F.A.Q. about death and related articles.




The Year in Facts
2025
Collaborators: Vinnie Neuberg (art director), Quentin Blake (artist).



Inauguration annotation
 2025
Role: Design direction, graphics support
Collaborators: Jane Mitchell (art director)
Based on a concurrently produced digital graphic, my team produced this spread on-deadline.



The Dismantling of Roe 2023
Collaborators: Keith Webb (art director)





Ghosts on the Glacier2023
Collaborators: Jane Mitchell (art director), Becky Lebowitz (photo editor), Jonathan Corum (graphics).
Fifty years ago, eight Americans set off for South America to climb Aconcagua. Two climbers died. Now, a camera belonging to one of the deceased climbers has emerged from a receding glacier near the summit.

SPD 59: Silver, Newspaper section, not feature


Sports 2024–2026
Collaborators: Tim Oliver (art director). Malika Favre and Justin Metz (artists).
Integrated coverage from The Athletic into the print sports report and created new, standalone Sports preview sections with expressive, full-page cover treatments and illustrations.





NYC Marathon + NYT Agate 2024
Collaborators: Blake Olmstead (Creative Director, Brand Identity), Scott Vander Zee (type designer), Lauren Gewirtz (designer), Campbell Biemiller (agate production), Julia Rothman (artist).
Commissioned NYT Agate, a typeface with an extended set of diacritical marks for New York City Marathon results. This solved an annual production issue and displays runners’ names as intended.





Democracy Challenged 2022
Collaborators: Keith Webb (art director), Matt Chase (artist).
The United States faces two distinct challenges, the movement by Republicans who refuse to accept defeat in an election and a growing disconnect between political power and public opinion.