About

Meghan Ryan Morris is a designer, developer, and artist focused on visual storytelling. She most recently worked as the Interactive Editorial Designer at The New Yorker. Her loyal hound Sophie is unemployed, but not looking.

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Resume

Experience
The New Yorker Editorial Interactives Designer
Condé Nast Software Engineer, UI / UX
Pitchfork Product Developer
Freelance / Self Designer & Developer
Someoddpilot Lead Developer
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Lecturer
F Newsmagazine Designer & Illustrator

Skills
Illustration
Print + digital design
Video editing (Final Cut Pro, Premiere)
Motion graphics (AfterEffects)
UI / UX Design (Sketch, Zeplin, Figma)
Adobe Creative Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
Web development (with front-end emphasis)

Languages
Conversational German
HTML + Jade, Handlebars, Mustache
CSS + Stylus, LESS, SCSS
JS jQuery, React, Angular
NPM, Node, REST API’s
Wordpress (Custom, headless)

Interests
Book hoarding
Rescue volunteering
Terrible futsal playing
Unbearable dog mom-ing

Selected Awards

With The New Yorker
American Society of Magazine Editors
Winner, Best Digital Design, 2024
for
Wong Kar Wai’s “In the Mood for Love”

D&AD Awards
Wood Pencil / Magazine & Newspaper Design / Digital Publications, 2023

With Pitchfork
National Magazine Awards
Nominated, 2018 & 2017

With Someoddpilot
Cannes Lions Creative Festival
Sustainable Development Goals Shortlist, 2018

Webby Awards
Corporate Social Responsibility People’s Voice, 2018

Shorty Social Good Awards
Call to Action, 2018

D+AD Impact Awards
Community & Interaction Graphite Pencil, 2018

Individual
Columbia Scholastic Press Association
First Place Design Portfolio of Work, 2015
Second Place Overall Publication Design, 2015

Illinois College Press Association
First Place General Excellence, 2015 & 2014
First Place Feature Design, 2015
Third Place Graphic Illustration, 2015
Honorable Mention Front Page Layout Design, 2015

Associated Collegiate Press
Pacemaker Award, 2014 & 2013