Designing my Swedish Christmas

Photos by Michael Partenio Last winter was my 17th year designing a Holiday Christmas story for Good Housekeeping magazine's December issue. (In the world of magazines, Christmas is usually produced a year in advance). The process started with my submitting multiple themes, sketches and ideas to the GH Staff. After working with wonderful creative editors Sarah Lyle and Laura Eckstein,we picked our favorite story and I set off to fine tune the designs. Our pick for this year was A Swedish…