epicurious
As the lead graphic designer for epicurious, Ma'ayan draws all the illustrations found on this site. Her work includes homepage tiles, article design, image retouching, photography, and e-mail production. She works closely with the edit team to design and conceptualize homepage features for editorial landing pages and article layout design, often showcasing one of her famous illustrations. Ma'ayan has also designed newsletters for epicurious including the Thanksgiving Newsletter, company-wide advertisements, event signage, and contest promotion. As the art director and photographer for the in-house studio at Condé Nast, she shoots food photography for recipes on the site.
Gourmet Live
As the lead graphic designer for Gourmet Live, Ma'ayan is in charge of producing the weekly digital magazine for the product. As the designer for the iPhone app, based off the iPad app, Ma'ayan designed the user interface, from illustrating the icons in the app to resolving how the iPad app would translate to mobile, Ma'ayan is involved in every aspect. After the print magazine folded, Ma'ayan revived Gourmet.com by redesigning the homepage. She updates it weekly with Gourmet Live content. Often Ma'ayan takes photographs for the app, or draws illustrations for articles. Many of her illustrations have been used on the covers of the weekly issues. Ma'ayan designs the weekly Gourmet Live newsletter. She designs all the Gourmet Live advertisements found on all Condé Nast magazine sites.
Condé Mobile
Ma'ayan designed a wide range of mobile sites for many Condé Nast publications using a user-friendly platform (including m.vanityfair.com, m.glamour.com, and m.teenvogue.com). She began by transforming the full website for the mobile screen. This included redesigning the homepage, incorporating slideshows, article layout, and new navigation. Ma'ayan then worked with programmers to make these sites easy to navigate and digest on a small screen.
