The Alps’ magical ice caves are at risk in our warming world. For centuries, this spectacular underworld recorded the local climate. Now its fairy-tale features are receding, drip by drip.
The opening spread shows the gatefold closed (the left flap over the three-panel photo). Another three-panel photo is on the second spread.
The second-to-last spread is another gatefold, showing a photo of the modern cave with light shing through a hola. eA photo of the cave from 1845 is on the flap on the previous spread. You can also see the hole in the cave in that photo.
Getting to zero carbon emissions won’t save the world. Putting carbon back where we found it could be another weapon to fight climate change. But it’s a massive undertaking unlike anything we’ve ever done.
We used a fading headline to illustrate the carbon disappearing.
The graphic in the middle of the story (The race to remove carbon, by Jason Treat, Brandon Shypkowski and Jing Zhang) is a double gate, with two flaps over the four-panel graphic. The graphic shows how the carbon can go back into the ground or into the ocean.
The gut microbiome can impact your digestion, immune system, and even your mood. We chose to use type bouncing around the page to show how the microbiomes react. Photographer Martin Oeggerli added color to the photos to discrimate between types of microbes and their features.
Beneath Borneo’s rainforest, explorers search for new discoveries deep within some of the Earth’s largest, longest, and wildest caves.
The headline at different levels in the cave helps draw the eye to all the unique elements inside the cave.
In 2019, the Clotilda's remains were found at the bottom of the Mobile River in Alabama. The discovery validated the names and stories of the 110 enslaved people on the ship. The discovery also revived the legacy of Africatown, the community founded by the Clotilda's descendants.
We tried many different treatments for the opener before landing on this option.
Paintings of the descendents by Sedrick Huckaby. Photos by Elisa Williams. Illustrations by Thom Tenery. Map by Matthew W Chwastyk.
Protected corals around the southern Line Islands have recovered with shocking speed from the heat of the 2015-2016 El Niño.
A Canary Islands volcano pushed rivers of molten lava through the earth. Now scientists and explorers trek through the cooling underground, looking for insights into life on this planet—and perhaps on others.
Why do we get annoyed? Science has irritatingly few answers. I worked with illustrator Jean Jullien on this front of book story.
We intentionally covered up a portion of the deck headline to add to the reader’s annoyance.
Indigenous peoples in the Amazon are using modern technology to defend their land—and their way of life. “We want the world to see us so they can help us.”
We matched photos of endangered animals from Joel Sartore’s massive Photo Ark collection with other animals within their web. This was done to showcase how after 50 years the Endangered Species Act not only protects individual plants and animals but the creatures with whom their lives are intertwined.
The robot revolution has arrived. Machines now preform all sorts of tasks: They clean big stores, patrol borders and help children with autism. But will they improve our lives?
We chose to use Foundry Gridnik, the font also used for the movie ‘Ex Machina,’ to tell the story of machines who are taking over more duties long preformed by humans and how it’s changing how we live.
Gunung Palung began as a remote Indonesian forest reserve. Today it’s grown into a sprawling national park that protects some of the world’s most biodiverse rainforests and the creatures that call them home.
We chose to have the headline covered by the tree. Having the tree stand out helps show the diversity of the Borneo rainforest.
