Working Media is a graphic design studio in Stoughton, Massachusetts, led by art director John Perry. It designs branding, marketing materials and printed products for technical and specialty companies.
Earth Sky + Water publishes laminated FoldingGuides™, posters, notecards, greeting cards, stickers and books about birds, butterflies, mushrooms, fish and other natural history. Working Media designed their folding guides, posters, greeting cards, note cards and stickers, along with their sales sheets.
Atrenne, a Celestica company, builds custom, ruggedized computing platforms for defense and aerospace, telecommunications, healthtech and industrial markets. Working Media designs their white papers, case studies and brochures, and produces videos that explain complicated hardware to engineers and buyers.
DataKitchen makes DataOps software that automates and monitors data analytics pipelines. Working Media designed the white papers, case studies, books and ads that explain it to data teams.
Marvin Media is a Los Angeles brand agency co-founded by editor-in-chief Marvin Scott Jarrett and Gary Koepke, its chief creative officer for design. It publishes Marvin, a quarterly, oversized-format magazine on music, fashion and culture. John Perry supported Gary as a freelance designer from Issue No. 6 in spring 2022 through Issue No. 12 in winter 2023, when the two of them designed each issue. He also worked on Interscope Reimagined, the publication that supported the LACMA exhibition. In 2024 he wrote and designed a sponsorship pitch for Blender, a proposed video series on music producers.
Packaging, identity work, magazines, books, posters and collateral from earlier years. Some of it was done as a freelance or contract designer, before and alongside Working Media, and each piece notes my role. Select a piece to see it larger. More work is in the full archive.
John T. PerryIII is a senior graphic designer and art director with more than 35 years in magazines, packaging and marketing. He started at Marblehead Communications in Boston and grew from designer to creative director at the original Working Media. He has run the studio under that name since 2009, designing and directing print and digital projects that arrive on time and on budget.
For more than thirty years, until his passing in 2024, he worked with designer Gary Koepke, co-founder of Modernista!, on projects including Creem, Vibe and Marvin. In 1993 the two drew the Vibe masthead, which ran unchanged for the magazine’s 17 years. His work has been recognized with a 2023 Grammy nomination (Interscope Reimagined, as contributing designer and typographer) and two Hermes Creative Awards golds.
In 2014 and 2015 he worked on site at Hasbro as an independent contract packaging designer, engaged directly and separately from Working Media. He led the 3.75-inch Star Wars: Episode 7 product line and was directly responsible for the packaging design of more than 100 UPCs, including exclusives for Toys R Us, Amazon and Target. He worked within the brand look established by Pilot (Boston) and Hasbro’s brand design team, on a 12-month development schedule.
He teaches graphic design as an adjunct professor at Stonehill College and holds a BFA from UMass Dartmouth.
Clients he has worked for across his career include Adobe Systems, Fidelity, Liberty Mutual, Gillette, Hallmark Channel, Sundance Channel, Time Warner, Continental Airlines, New Balance and Western Union.
“One group in my company outsourced most of its creative work to John: data sheets, white papers, brochures, banners, posters and more. John handled it all in a turnkey fashion, working directly with print shops and overseeing deliveries and shipments.”
“In short, he took us from here to there and did so in the most professional and helpful manner.”
Tell me what you are making, who it is for and when it is due. I will reply with how I would approach it.
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