Callisto Media Books
print / publications, data, learning, information design, infographic, book
Callisto Media publishes practical, interest-driven books for self-directed learners—people who have identified something they want to understand, make, or explore and are looking for a direct path in. Content development is driven by real reader demand: search data and market signals shape what gets made before a manuscript exists.
As a Senior Art Director, I directed the visual development of titles across cookbooks, self-help, guided journals, and more. The production model was built for speed: pre-vetted, contracted photographers and illustrators kept quality consistent without rebuilding from scratch on every title. Senior art directors typically carried 8 to 12 titles simultaneously, all at different production stages, on schedules that didn't always account for how they overlapped. To stay ahead of conflicts, I built a personal Airtable tracking system to map my own workload and flag bottlenecks before they became problems.
That system caught enough attention that it informed a larger role: after about a year as Senior Art Director, I moved into a newly created Design Operations Manager position, supporting production workflows across the design and production design teams.
MY ROLE
Graphic design, Art direction, File production
Chelsea Larsson, Illustrator for “Too Pregnant to Move.” All books published by Callisto Media.
