Heather Corcoran is a designer and a writer. She makes books, maps, and posters. Many of her personal essays involve looking closely at a place.

First Deployment is a visual essay about San Diego in 1972.

Reading Time catalogs some typographic approaches to literature and time. 

Six Conversations is a close reading of dialogue in short stories by contemporary women.

This poster translates the visual essay First Deployment onto a single surface.

This poster models how design students can grow the scope of their learning over time.