Mark Maltais is art director at Rolling Stone, a biweekly iconic pop-culture magazine focusing on music, politics, television, and current world events. The publication is recognized around the world for entertainment coverage, bold journalism and powerful reporting. Mark’s responsibilities include the design of feature stories for the magazine as well as art directing Rolling Stone special editions that celebrate legends of the music industry such as John Lennon, Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie and Prince among others. These projects often incorporate commissioned photographs and illustrations from some of the most acclaimed artists in the publishing industry. Mark came to Rolling Stone after several years of work forAmerican Express as art director of Travel + Leisure magazine.
Born and raised in New Hampshire, Mark received his BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design, which included a year of study abroad in Rome Italy, and an MFA from The Yale School of Art. In collaboration with a number of his classmates in the program at Yale, Mark co-founded Class Action: The Artist’s Collective for Community Action in New Haven, CT. Through the medium of graphic design, the group addressed numerous social issues such as domestic violence, the controversy over Roe V. Wade and the impending AIDS Crisis. In 1993, Class Action was awarded 1st place for best environmental design by ID magazine for the art installation: Aiding Awareness: Women’s Stories.
Early in his career, Mark moved to New York City to work for Doublespace, a boutique design studio where he directed a range of projects that included entertainment packaging programs, corporate marketing materials, signage systems and the launch of new magazines. He worked his way up to become creative director of the company in 1998. A year later he moved to Chicago to become creative director of Context magazine, a business technology publication targeting high-level corporate executives. During Mark’s tenure, Context received dozens of awards for excellence in design, illustration, photography and typography. Context was also a finalist for the national magazine award in 1999.
In 2005, Mark founded his own design practice to focus on magazine and book publishing, working directly in collaboration with the following titles: People, Town & Country, Vanity Fair, Martha Stewart: The Catalog for Living, More, and Esquire among others. During this time, he worked with Rizzoli International to art direct Self Exposure: The Male Nude Self Portrait, an art book featuring more than 100 works from established masters such as: Robert Mapplethorpe, David Hockney, and Andy Warhol as well as up-and-coming photographers. In 2009, Mark was commissioned by the Federal Communications Commission to design Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan: a 350-page report to The United States Congress about a proposal to expand internet capacity in America.
Mark lives and works in New York City.