Nicholas Blechman is a New York-based art director, illustrator and designer. Formerly art director of the New York Times Book Review and the New York Times op-ed page, he is currently creative director of The New Yorker. Since 1990 he has also published, edited and designed the political underground magazine Nozone, featured in the Smithsonian Institution’s Design Triennial. Blechman’s illustrations have appeared in GQ, Travel + Leisure, Wired and the New York Times.