580 Split

A contemporary digital reading experience.

When Mills College’s literary journal, 580 Split, transitioned to a web-based publication after twenty-five years in print, its new home explored how a thoughtful digital-first reading experience could look, feel, and behave.

Role

Design, art direction

Collaborators

Andrew Lux, web developer

Additional art direction

Shiraz Gallab

Grace Lee

A mobile phone rests on a stack of colorful vintage literary journals. On the phone’s screen, crisp boxes outline links to interviews with writers Anne Carson and Latasha N. Nevada Diggs.