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 invites people to write personal narratives and develop visual iterations. This happens through supportive and accessible workshops held in different community settings.
Headache Clouds is a visual essay about chronic head pain.
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 a relocation during adolescence.
Notes for an essay about living in Chicago describes a friendship inside of a design studio.
Reading Time catalogs typographic approaches to literature and time.
Six Conversations is a close reading of dialogue in short stories by contemporary women.
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.
This poster models how design students can grow the scope of their learning over time.
