About Tom Bodkin
Bodkin, who has held the position of design director at the Times since 1987, was named a deputy managing editor in 2011. As head of the art department he is responsible for the evolving look and user experience for all platforms including the paper, the web site and mobile apps. He oversees a staff of 140 that includes art directors, news designers, digital designers, information architects, design technologists, graphics editors, multimedia editors, and production artists.
Bodkin joined The Times in April 1980 as art director of the Home Section. Before being appointed design director, he was involved in the redesign of several broadsheet sections and the launch of several special editions of The New York Times Sunday Magazine.
Born in New York City in 1953, Mr. Bodkin attended Brown University and was subsequently creative director of Avant-Garde Media, a designer for the CBS Broadcast Group, and the art director of Us Magazine.
Mr. Bodkin has won numerous awards from design associations, including gold medals from the New York Art Directors Club, The Society of Publication Designers and the Society of News Designers; and from the American Institute of Graphic Arts a special award “for design in the service of society” for The New York Times’s presentation of news surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks. In 1986 he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for the Times’s coverage of the Strategic Defense Initiative, known as the Star Wars program.