Heather Corcoran is a designer and a writer. She makes books, posters, and maps. Many of her personal essays involve looking closely at a place.
Heather Corcoran is a designer and a writer. She makes books, posters, and maps. Many of her personal essays involve looking closely at a place.
The Sentence Project is an idea about developing personal writing and visual expression. It takes place through accessible workshops in different community settings during which people write, sketch, and iterate in short, guided sessions.
Books
Taking a walk is a personal visual essay exploring tree stumps after a tornado.
Short Rivers is a visualization of several rivers around the world
that measure fewer than 500 feet.
When it rains is a visual essay about rainfall patterns in St. Louis.
Headache Clouds is a visual essay about chronic head pain.
Birds is a typographic sketch made observing birds.
Notes on Running records a period of intense training with a running group in the 1990s.
First Deployment is a visual essay about San Diego in 1972.
Always, briefly reflects on relocating during adolescence.
Notes for an essay about living in Chicago describes a friendship formed inside of a design studio.
Posters
San Diego 1972 translates the visual essay First Deployment onto a single surface.
Off-road tracks a series of runs in the spring and summer of 1995.
