As an art director for a financial magazine, creating dynamic layouts that illustrated complex, often highly conceptual topics was a challenge. For this layout about investing in crude diamond mines in Canada, photographs of miners weren’t likely something that would strike the reader as attractive, and beauty shots of diamond-encrusted jewelry wasn’t particularly pertinent to the story. As a solution, I created a highly graphic, yet simple way to illustrate the central focus of the story. A maple leaf, signifying the country, paired with a single cut diamond created an eye-catching opening spread.