About

McCandliss and Campbell is an art direction team that combines innovative typography and conceptually-driven fashion photography to create award-winning editorial design. They have received more than 300 design, photography and illustration awards from The Society of Publication Designers, The Type Directors Club, Graphis, Print’s Regional Design Annual, How International Design Awards, Communication Arts Design Annual, Communication Art Typography Annual, and Creative Quarterly. They won a German Design Award for Excellence in Communication Design.

Their Kean University students have won more than twenty Gold and Silver Medals for design from the Graphis International Design Competition. Over the last five years, their Kean students have placed in the top three spots of the Society of Publication Designers Student Competition, with one first place, one second and one third place win.

McCandliss and Campbell were recently named Graphis Design Masters. They are currently creative directors of Earnshaw’s, a children’s fashion magazine, and Footwear Plus, a fashion magazine covering the footwear industry.

Nancy Campbell is a graduate of The School of Visual Arts with a BFA in graphic design. She has worked at numerous magazines including Harper’s Bazaar, Mademoiselle and YM. 

Trevett McCandliss received his BFA in fine arts from Syracuse University. He studied painting at the New York Studio School and graphic design and photography at The School of Visual Arts. 

McCandliss and Campbell often speak about their work to colleges including The School of Visual Arts, The Fashion Institute of Technology, USC, Texas Christian University and Jacksonville State University.

McCandliss and Campbell were guest speakers at the 2012 Magazine Design Conference in Copenhagen and Oslo. In 2013, 2014 and 2015 they spoke at the National College Media Convention. They taught a master class in graphic design at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in Copenhagen in 2015. McCandliss and Campbell presented their work at the 2016 Magazine Design Conference in Oslo, Norway. They taught a master class in advanced typography to professional art directors as part of The Society of Publication Designers Creative Labs series in May of 2021.

Nancy served on the jury of the Society of Publication Designers competition in 2014 and 2019. Trevett served on the SPD jury in 2018 and 2020. Together they judged the 2017 Graphis Design competition. Nancy judged the 2019 Communication Arts Typography competition. In 2020 Trevett judged the Graphis Photography contest. McCandliss and Campbell teach Type 1, Type 2 and Editorial Design at Kean University. Trevett was the Vice President of The Society of Publication Designers from 2020-2021 and now serves on the advisory board.