Jordan Wannemacher is an award-winning graphic designer. Born, raised, and art school educated in the Southeast, she now calls Brooklyn, NY home.

Currently, Jordan runs Studio Jordan Wannemacher, a boutique graphic design studio specializing in book design, publication design, and other printed products. With more than ten years of design experience, she has her hands in all aspects of the design and production process. Whether it’s a cookbook, branding for select businesses, the cover of a novel, or packaging for a new product, she has it covered.

She was previously Senior Designer at Barnes and Noble, Rodale Books and Columbia University Press. She is an occasional contributor to Spine Magazine conducting round-ups of University Press covers to showcase the great design happening in the University Press world.

She loves Radiohead, Elena Ferrante, Japanese food, type design, fancy soaps, and the color green. She is also a 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher.

Select Clients

Penguin Random House
Harper Collins
W.W. Norton
Rizzoli Books International
Scribd
Barnes & Noble
NYU Press
Macmillan
Simon & Schuster
Rutgers University Press
Stanford University Press
Schaffner Press

2017 — Lecturing at SCAD to help students interested in a career in publishing

2018 — Lecturing at SCAD to help students interested in a career in publishing

Jordan's bookshelf: currently-reading

The Art of Happiness
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goodreads.com

Press

Awards

  • Recipient of the 2013 AIGA/Design Observer 50 Books/50 Covers Award

  • First place in the 2015 New York Book Show for scholarly interior design

  • Selected entry for the 2018 AUP Book, Jacket and Journal Show

Speaking Engagements

  • Savannah College of Art and Design 2018

  • University of South Carolina 2020, Monthly Meetup Series (presented in conjunction with AIGA SC)

  • Academy of Design Master Chat Podcast hosted by Derek Black, Dean of Academics at the Academy of Design in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

  • Her Own Universe Podcast, a podcast featuring women business owners about life and creativity.

  • College Media Convention 2012-2015 “How to Turn your Literary Love into a Career”

  • Montclair Design Week 2019 “Judging Books by Their Cover”

Education

Savannah College of Art and Design Bachelor's of Arts in Graphic Design and Creative Writing