My name is Jackson Bechtold, I'm a junior studying Graphic Design at Virginia Commonwealth University and I'm expected to graduate in the Spring of 2027. I'm currently working at Ink Magazine as a layout designer and will be promoted to Lead Layout Designer in the Fall of 2026. This page is a type design and typesetting focused subsection of my portfolio.

You can view my main portfolio here and I can be reached at jackson.bechtold@gmail.com.

Granby Funeral Program is an experimental, saddle stitched booklet that conveys narrative emotion through typesetting. It follows the story of a corporation in grief as its characters navigate the newfound absence of their peers.

Maude is a typeface I completed in the Fall of 2025. It mimics normative woodblock typefaces at small sizes with bulky thin strokes. It carries a melodramatic personality conveyed through a play written by Maude L Hall.

This is the typesetting work for Ink Magazine I'm most proud of. Mason Rowley's Article, Digital Amber, contained a series of footnotes which wasn't common to Ink magazine. The article was accompanied by experimental imagery by Tyga Martin that visualizes glitches in hardware storage systems. These two elements did their best to collide with each other, but I made space. I also designed the Digital Amber logo seen on the first page.

A project in the same series as the Granby Funeral Program. Portraits make ghostly appearances in a narrative conveyed through the type standards of Gmail and broken image links.

Sestina is a typeface I'm using to study famously readable normative serif faces such as Georgia, Times New Roman, Editor's Serif, and Cambria. With Sestina, I focus on the standards of type design to strengthen my work within both typesetting and type design itself. It's how I'm bringing myself closer to the internal worlds of the typefaces that dominate print and digital text.

Thank you for taking the time to look through my work! My entire portfolio is open to you, but I'd recommend visiting my studies page or my posters for Ink Magazine for a change of pace.