Janet Michaud

Conceived, art directed and designed these covers.

1. Media Issue illustration by Matt Chase; 2. Cities Issue illustration by Eiko Ojala; 3. Boehner photograph by Ben Baker; 4. Media Issue typography by Post Typography; 5. Politico 50 illustration by Tracie Ching; 6. Campaign Issue typography by Joel Holland; photograph by Douglas Friedman; 7. Money Issue illustration by The Voorhes; 8. The Work Issue illustration by Justin Metz; 9. Obama Issue illustration by Craig Ward; 10. Media Issue illustration by C.J. Burton;  11. Convention Issue illustrations by Tracie Ching; 12. Year Zero illustration by The Voorhes; 13. War photographs by Marco Grob and Ben Baker

Designed these stories and produced them in collaboration with developers.

1. Jason Grow, Photographer; 2. Matt Chinworth, Illustrator; 3. M. Scott Mahaskey, Photographer; 4. Cristiano Siqueria, Illustrator; 5. Nathan Fox, Illustrator; 6. Linda Davidson, Photographer and Jeffrey Smith, Illustrator; 7. Illustration by Erin Aulov; 8-9. Patrick Cavan Brown, Photographer; 10. M. Scott Mahaskey, Photographer; 11. Graphics by 5W Infographics; 12. Patrick Cavan Brown, Photographer; 13. Mark Peterson, Photographer

Front Row at the Political Theater. Mark Peterson, Photographer. Spreads 1-10. Awarded an ASME for Feature Photography.

‘I want to be with the circus.’ David Kennerly, Photographer. Spreads 11-21. Awarded an SND gold medal for Visuals and a silver for Design.

Majority Rules. Ben Baker, Photographer. Spreads 22-32. Awarded an SND award of excellence.

100 Days of Trump’s Washington. Stephen Voss, Photographer. Spreads 33-42. Awarded an SND award of excellence.

Working the West Wing. Ben Baker, Photographer. Spreads 43-48.

To Kill A Man. Assigned, art directed and designed this piece for our 2015 War Issue. Illustrations by Michael Byers. This story won an Award of Excellence from the Society of News Design (SND) in 2015.

What the Press Still Doesn’t Get About Trump. Designed this piece for our 2017 Media Issue. Illustrations by Ben Wiseman. This piece won an SND award of excellence.

Bitcoin Boomtown. Designed this piece for our 2018 Money Issue. Photographs by Patrick Cavan Brown.

Bank of America. Assigned, art directed and designed this piece for our 2015 Congress Issue. Illustrations by Oliver Munday. This piece won an Award of Excellence from the Society of News Design (SND) in 2015.Myanmar

The Genocide the US Didn’t See Coming. Designed this piece for a 2018 issue. Photographs by Szymon Barylski.

Select pages from our annual Politico 50 issues, a guide to the thinkers, doers and visionaries changing American politics. 1. Illustration by Jimmy Turrell; 2-5. Photographs by Jesse Dittmar; 6. Photographs by Stephen Voss; 7. Photograph by Jesse Dittmar; 8. Illustrations by Jimmy Turrell and Cristiano Siqueria; 9. Photograph by Andre Chung; 10-11. Illustrations by Matt Chase; 12-13. Illustrations by Tracie Ching; 14. Photos by Joe Pugliese/August, Illustration by Joel Kimmel; 15. Photographs by Austin Hargrave and Brad Ogbonna/Redux; 16-17. Illustrations by Lincoln Agnew; 18. Photograph by Ben Baker/Redux; 19. Photograph by Peter Hapak/Trunk Archive; 20-21. Illustrations by Lincoln Agnew and Michael Hoeweler; 22. Photographs by Ben Baker/Redux

Various feature pages created for Politico Magazine. Many of these spreads were done in collaboration with the magazine’s art director, Erin Aulov.

1. GOP Porn illustration by Alvaro Dominguez. In collaboration with Erin Aulov and Megan McCrink; 2. Culture Wars illustration by Ben Fearnley; 3. Populism illustration by Matt Chase; 4. Bitcoin photograph by Patrick Cavan Brown; 5. Loyalty illustration by Peter Arkle; 6. Mississippi photograph by Jon Lowenstein; 7. Trump Twitter illustration by Bigshot Toyworks; 8. Ballou photograph by Melissa Golden; 9-12. Election illustrations by Lincoln Agnew; 13. Press illustrations by Hanoch Piven (SND Award of Excellence); 14. Braucli/Keller photograph by Ben Baker/Redux (SND Award of Excellence); 15. Pentagon illustration by Brian Stauffer (SND Award of Excellence); 16. Illustration by Andrew Bannecker (not for Politico Magazine); 17. Super Elite typography by Luke Lucas; 18. Republicans photograph by Ben Baker/Redux; 19. The Nation He Built illustration by Edel Rodriguez; 20. Lettering by Joel Holland; 21. Dan Rather photograph by Ben Baker/Redux; 22. Obama illustrations by Sarah King

Various infographics created for Politico Magazine. I assigned these infographics and worked in collaboration with the artists to develop and shape these graphics.

1-2. Politico 50 infographics by 5W Infographics and illustrations by Alex Fine; 3. Twitter graphic by Nicolas Rapp; 4-6. 16 Charts by David Foster; 7. Survey infographics by 5W Infographics

9/11 Anniversary Issue. As Design Director of the Washington Post, I art directed, designed, and helped coordinate the 10th anniversary issue for 9/11. Illustration by Anthony Freda. Photographs by Bonnie Jo Mount.

Inauguration Issue. Art directed, designed, and helped coordinate the Washington Post's Inauguration Issue as Barack Obama took office for his second term.

Various Washington Post Magazine covers and inside pages from 2009-2010. After working on a team to redesign the newspaper, I redesigned the magazine and acted as its art director for a year. 1. & 2. Chuck Brown photographs by Marvin Joseph; 5.-7. Time illustrations by Hunter Freeman; 8.-10. Dining Guide photographs by Sean McCormick; 11. Fiction illustration by Mark Ulriksen

As Design Director at the Washington Post overseeing News, Features and the Magazine, here are a handful of pages I worked on in collaboration with my wonderful staff of designers -- who I only hope learned as much from me as I did from them. The last 4 pages are a prototype I worked on for our Sunday Style section.

I was an art director at TIME magazine from 2001-2008. During that time, I art directed, designed and helped coordinate numerous special sections, as well as a 60-page special issue called Music Goes Global. 

1. & 2. Music Goes Global illustrations by Christian Clayton, Tavis Coburn, Jason Holley and Tomer Hanuka; 3. Music Goes Global gatefold illustration by Josh Gosfield (this won a TIME Inc. President's Award in 2001); 4.-6. Athens Olympics photographs by David Burnett; 7-9. Global Warming special issue illustrations by Ann Cutting, which was the first special section after TIME redesigned in 2008; 10. & 11. Poverty photographs by James Nachtwey