Chantal Jahchan is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Brooklyn

︎︎
chantaljahchan@gmail.com

Select Features
NYT: The Year in Illustration 2022
NYT: Best Book Covers of 2021
AIGA Eye on Design, 2022
Design by Women, 2021
Frontier, 2020

Femme Type, 2020
Design 360 Mag, 2020
It’s Nice That, 2018

Speaking
Typographics, 2019
Adobe Live x Femme Type, 2020 Adobe Live Editorial Design, 2018

Awards
AIGA 50 Books 50 Covers, 2021
ADC Awards, 2020
Type Directors Club, 2019
Graphis New Talent Annual, 2019

Adobe Design Achievement, 2018 & 2019

Teaching
Guest Critic, MICA GD, 2021
Chantal Jahchan is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Brooklyn

︎︎
chantaljahchan@gmail.com


You Don’t Need to Speak Another Language to Love a Bilingual Edition
NYT Magazine

Illustration for a piece about the beauty of bilingual editions of books.

Art direction by Claudia Rubín

︎︎︎ Digital article


I Still Believe in the Power of Sexual Freedom
NYT Opinion

Editorial illustration for a guest essay by Nona Willis Aronowitz on the importance of pursuing desire on one’s own terms.

Art direction by Shoshana Schultz

︎︎︎ Digital article


Don’t Lose Your Accent!
NYT Opinion

Editorial illustration for a piece about the elasticity of American English and the ways in which it’s enriched by immigrants.

Art direction by Shoshana Schultz

︎︎︎ Digital article


Half-Earth Socialism
Verso Books

Cover design for Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass’s radical proposal to “save the earth and grant the good life to all.”

Published by Verso Books
Art direction by No Ideas


Climate Change as Class War
Verso Books

Cover design for Matthew T. Huber’s groundbreaking class analysis, in which he argues that the climate crisis is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production.

Published by Verso Books
Art direction by Melissa Weiss