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 brings people together to develop their own individual writing and visual material in a group setting. The sessions are short, guided, and accessible. They happen in a variety of community contexts, including local gatherings, art book fairs, and classrooms.
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 measuring 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 Oregon 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.
