Creative Direction,
Styling and Design.
About.
now
Martin Jacobs is a highly experienced and passionate freelance creative director, stylist and graphic designer available
to work, or collaborate, with you.
With over eighteen years experience on international and local market-leading titles at the forefront of the media industry, Martin is a dynamic professional meticulous in matters of attention
to detail, whilst equally capable
of seeing the bigger picture.
He is proficient at managing productions from concept to completion, and a content creator adept at conveying a coherent message through the sophisticated and strategic combination of images and words.
Martin has a love for, and deep appreciation of, interior and product design, architecture, art, food and travel. This focused passion has lead him to spend a large part of his magazine career strategising and creating for interior and lifestyle titles. Martin lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.
then
Martin Jacobs served as the Creative Director of South African
Condé Nast House&Garden
as well as of Condé Nast Gourmet and of the Design Directory magazines from late 2011 until 2019. These years
were his second period at Condé Nast Independent Magazines, having previously worked for the company in 2004 as Assistant
Art Director on the launch of Glamour magazine.
Martin has been involved in a number of magazine launches,
the most recent being Condé
Nast Gourmet magazine where
he was instrumental in its
creative vision. Similarly,
he was involved from the start on Media24's Men's Health
Best Life magazine and acted
as Art Director until its closure in 2009. In the years following that, and prior to joining the Condé Nast House&Garden team, he served as Art Director on Marie Claire magazine at Associated Magazines, having previously worked for the company on
House & Leisure magazine.
January 2019
– September 2011
Creative Director
Condé Nast House&Garden magazine
Condé Nast Gourmet magazine
Design Directory magazine
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Condé Nast Independent Magazines
August 2011
– May 2009
Art Director
Marie Claire magazine
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Associated Magazines
April 2009
– April 2007
Art Director
Men's Health Best Life magazine
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Touchline Media
March 2007
– October 2004
Senior Designer
House & Leisure magazine
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Associated Magazines
September 2004
– September 2003
Associate Art Director
Glamour magazine
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Condé Nast Independent Magazines
August 2003
– January 2002
Art Director
Wicked magazine
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Style Lab
August 2003
– January 2002
(freelance)
Art Director
Cape Etc magazine
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Inyati Publishing
December 2001
– January 2001
Senior Designer
SA Motorsport magazine
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Strobe Communications
December 2000
– May 1999
Teacher in Graphic Design and History
of Art
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Herzlia Senior
High School
curriculum vitae