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Jay Peter Salvas is a New York City–based creative director, graphic designer, and visual artist.

Grounded in the principles of the International Typographic Style (Swiss Style) and informed by his training at the Rhode Island School of Design, Salvas works within—and occasionally challenges—this ideology to create thoughtful, dynamic design systems for commercial and cultural institutions.

He started his career as a book designer at Chronicle Books in San Francisco, CA. Since then, he’s worked in a variety of creative industries where he’s focused on brand identity, print and digital design, campaigns, packaging, typography, directing a team of creatives, and experimental making.

He has extensive experience leading and mentoring multidisciplinary design teams at all levels while fostering collaboration, innovation, playfulness, and a positive team culture.

He has received creative recognition from numerous publications such as How, Print, Communication Arts, Step, Type Design: Radical Innovations and Experimentation by Harper Collins International, and the British Journal of Photography; and such institutions as the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), the Art Institute of Boston, San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB), Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and Yale University. He has served on occasion as a visiting designer at Parsons The New School for Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), and San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI).

He holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from Yale University, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from Rhode Island School of Design.

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+1 917 544 0776
jaypetersalvas@gmail.com
@jaypetersalvas

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Jay Peter Salvas is a New York City–based creative director, graphic designer, and visual artist.

Grounded in the principles of the International Typographic Style (Swiss Style) and informed by his training at the Rhode Island School of Design, Salvas works within—and occasionally challenges—this ideology to create thoughtful, dynamic design systems for commercial and cultural institutions.

He started his career as a book designer at Chronicle Books in San Francisco, CA. Since then, he’s worked in a variety of creative industries where he’s focused on brand identity, print and digital design, campaigns, packaging, typography, directing a team of creatives, and experimental making.

He has extensive experience leading and mentoring multidisciplinary design teams at all levels while fostering collaboration, innovation, playfulness, and a positive team culture.

He has received creative recognition from numerous publications such as How, Print, Communication Arts, Step, Type Design: Radical Innovations and Experimentation by Harper Collins International, and the British Journal of Photography; and such institutions as the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), the Art Institute of Boston, San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB), Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and Yale University. He has served on occasion as a visiting designer at Parsons The New School for Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), and San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI).

He holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from Yale University, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from Rhode Island School of Design.

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This website’s visual system and backend respond to timeframes designated for daytime and nighttime in Brooklyn, NY.

In dedication to the legendary Wolfgang Weingart.

Outpost Journal Framing Art, Design, and Community Engagement

Outpost Journal is a nonprofit print publication framing innovative art, design, and activism from underrepresented cities.

Context

The design of the four editions, rooted in Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Kansas City, and Providence, challenges publication design through multidimensional layering, deconstructed text, intentional illegibility, and crop and registration marks that, if followed, would liberate the pages from their binding.

Issue 01: Pittsburgh, PA

Issue 01: Pittsburgh, PA explores a former hub of American wealth and industry, now defined by historic architecture, a strong nonprofit sector, and space for artists to create.

Issue 02: Baltimore, MD

Issue 02: Baltimore, MD explores the creative grit of a charismatic seaport city known for Old Bay seasoning and Hairspray—where a raw urban intensity meets bold, welcoming artistic communities.

Issue 03: Kansas City, MO

Issue 03: Kansas City, MO explores the heart of the heartland, steeped in Americana and history—from jazz and political gangsters to cattle trading—now reflecting a microcosm of contemporary American culture and providing space for artists to create.

Issue 04: Providence, RI

Issue 04: Providence, RI—the final issue—concludes the 2011–2014 collaboration between three friends: Manya Rubinstein, Pete Oyler, and Jay Peter Salvas.

Released in fall 2014, this issue tips its hat to Providence, an outpost that introduced the collaborators—as students and beyond—to the transformative power of visual art, design, and community engagement.

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