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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—also known as the Swiss Style, which emphasizes clarity, objectivity, and universal communication—and his formal training at the Rhode Island School of Design, Salvas’s design practice helps commercial and cultural clients develop thoughtful, dynamic design systems that strengthen and elevate their 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, ranging from Designers to Associate Design Directors, fostering collaboration and innovation while ensuring creative excellence—where maintaining a positive team culture is essential.

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 responds to seasonal shifts between the time zones EDT and EST, and time frames designated for daytime and nighttime in Brooklyn, NY.

This website is dedicated to and in memory of the legendary Wolfgang Weingart.

Outpost Journal Art, Design, Action From the Fringes

Outpost Journal is a nonprofit print publication that spotlights innovative art, design, and activism from underrepresented cities, with four editions rooted in the creative ecosystems of Pittsburgh, PA; Baltimore, MD; Kansas City, MO; and Providence, RI.

Context

The design of Outpost Journal challenges traditional conventions of magazine design, employing aggressive techniques such as multidimensional layering of content, severing text from the boundaries of the page, and positioning crop and registration marks in ways that—if followed—would reimagine the publication’s form and liberate it from its binding.

Issue 01: Pittsburgh, PA

Issue 01: Pittsburgh, PA explores the former hub of major American wealth and industry. Today, the city boasts a rich stock of historic architecture and a strong nonprofit sector, reflecting a legacy of spatial ingenuity and providing artists with room to create.

Issue 02: Baltimore, MD

Issue 02: Baltimore, MD explores the creative grit of a tough, charismatic seaport city known for Old Bay seasoning, Hairspray, and a reputation for high crime. The city leaves a strong impression—at times a jolt to the senses with its raw intensity; at others, a welcoming embrace from the bold, enthusiastic artistic communities that have made it their home.

Issue 03: Kansas City, MO

Issue 03: Kansas City, MO heads straight into the heart of the heartland. Steeped in Americana and rich with history—from jazz music and political gangsters to cattle trading—today’s Kansas City represents a microcosm of contemporary American culture at large.

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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