Project - based visuals for magazines, journals & special issues
There are moments in publishing when a story asks for something more than the expected rhythm of a template — when an editor senses a need for atmosphere, subtlety, or a visual language that can hold memory with a little more grace. These are the spaces where commissioned artwork becomes not an embellishment, but an anchor.
The imagery created for Knuti’s Weekly Magazine grew out of such a moment. A quiet, archival spread — sepia-toned photographs gathered like keepsakes on a desk — shaped to honor the bond between a young polar bear and the people who cared for him. Not a redesign of the publication, but a single, crafted visual vignette that allowed the feature to breathe in its own register.
This is the kind of collaboration OfToil offers:
artwork, illustration, and AI-generated imagery conceived for individual stories, special editions, or thematic issues — created in dialogue with an editor-in-chief, art director, or creative team. Each project becomes its own small ecosystem: part memory, part narrative, part craft.
The process is simple, intentional, and paced like a conversation.
A concept becomes a sketch, a sketch becomes an atmosphere, and the atmosphere finds its place on the page — supporting the magazine’s identity rather than overshadowing it.
For publications seeking a singular mood for a cover story, a long-form feature, a commemorative issue, or a visual folio, OfToil provides a palette that blends classic editorial sensibilities with contemporary image-making — from portrait-based illustration to conceptual AI work shaped with care.
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