Grow

Building a lush, multivocal visual language.

Grow’s ‘Futures’ issue explores potential futures created through synthetic biology. The issue’s design and art direction—developed alongside a talented slate of visual collaborators—imagines tactile, dreamy worlds where exowombs, GMO weed, and Indigenous futurism coexist.

Role

Design, art direction

Collaborators

Grace Chuang, creative direction

jazsalyn, art direction

A magazine is open to the table of contents. The word ‘futures’ in a bold, psychedelic font, is surrounded by smaller photographs and illustrations.

An open magazine shows a photograph of a futuristic sushi display, accompanied by a headline reading ‘Fish out of Water.’

Photography by Magali Polverino Studio

An open magazine shows an article paired with an illustration of a woman’s silhouette. Her large hoop earring catches the light.

Illustration by Debora Cheyenne Cruchon

An open magazine shows an article paired with a surreal full-page photograph of a marijuana plant surrounded by flowers against a bright background.

Photography by Alejandra Rajal

Illustrations by Alex Valentina

An open magazine shows a bright, colorful design: a large headline reading ‘Who Will Control the Exowomb?’ accompanies a collage illustration showing fragmented, cutout pieces of a baby and a couple.

Illustrations by Najeebah Al-Ghadban