Close

MAS Context Spring Talks 2015

Pitchfork studio visit

May 7, 2015 at 6:30PM

MAS Context organized a studio visit to Pitchfork where designer Michael Renaud, creative director of Pitchfork and contributor to our Repetition issue, discussed the ideas behind The Pitchfork Review and his experience working on the first five issues, as well as his design approach to the different areas of Pitchfork.

Contributors

Michael Renaud

Mas event 2015 pitchfork cover

Pitchfork studio visit, Chicago, 2015. © Iker Gil.

Pitchfork has been the leading voice in independent music since 1996, with an audience of more than five million unique visitors each month. Every year they organize fantastic music festivals in Chicago and Paris and, in July of 2013, they launched The Dissolve, a reference website for movie lovers.

In December of 2013 they released the first issue of The Pitchfork Review, a quarterly print publication featuring long-form feature stories, photography, design, cartoons, and other ephemera that documents music culture, past and present.

Thank you very much to Michael Renaud and Molly Butterfoss for taking the time to share their work, and to all of you who attended the event.

Below are a few photographs of the event.

Mas event 2015 pitchfork 01

Pitchfork studio visit, Chicago, 2015. © Iker Gil.

Mas event 2015 pitchfork 02

Pitchfork studio visit, Chicago, 2015. © Iker Gil.

Mas event 2015 pitchfork 03

Pitchfork studio visit, Chicago, 2015. © Iker Gil.

Mas event 2015 pitchfork 04

Pitchfork studio visit, Chicago, 2015. © Iker Gil.

Mas event 2015 pitchfork 05

Michael Renaud, Pitchfork studio visit, Chicago, 2015. © Iker Gil.

Mas event 2015 pitchfork 06

Michael Renaud, Pitchfork studio visit, Chicago, 2015. © Iker Gil.

Mas event 2015 pitchfork 07

Pitchfork studio visit, Chicago, 2015. © Iker Gil.

Mas event 2015 pitchfork 08

Michael Renaud, Pitchfork studio visit, Chicago, 2015. © Iker Gil.

Mas event 2015 pitchfork 09

Michael Renaud, Pitchfork studio visit, Chicago, 2015. © Iker Gil.

Mas event 2015 pitchfork 10

Pitchfork studio visit, Chicago, 2015. © Iker Gil.

Mas event 2015 pitchfork 11

Pitchfork studio visit, Chicago, 2015. © Iker Gil.

Mas event 2015 pitchfork 12

Pitchfork studio visit, Chicago, 2015. © Iker Gil.

Mas event 2015 pitchfork 13

Pitchfork studio visit, Chicago, 2015. © Iker Gil.

Mas event 2015 pitchfork 14

Pitchfork studio visit, Chicago, 2015. © Iker Gil.

Mas event 2015 pitchfork 15

Pitchfork studio visit, Chicago, 2015. © Iker Gil.

Mas event 2015 pitchfork 16

Pitchfork studio visit, Chicago, 2015. © Iker Gil.

Mas event 2015 pitchfork 17

Pitchfork studio visit, Chicago, 2015. © Iker Gil.

Mas event 2015 pitchfork 18

Pitchfork studio visit, Chicago, 2015. © Iker Gil.

Comments

Contributor Bios

Contributor

Bio

Contact

Michael Renaud

Michael Renaud is a Chicago-based designer and the creative director for Pitchfork, the world’s most widely respected guide to music. He leads a team that visualizes the website on a day-to-day basis, in addition to their two festivals in Paris and Chicago, their recently launched venture into film The Dissolve, and the quarterly print publication The Pitchfork Review. The design of such endeavors has led to many Webby awards, the 2013 National Magazine Award for digital excellence, and a spot tor Michael on Ad Age’s creativty 50 list.