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It took almost 10 months, but Toronto Life has hired a new full-time art director. Jessica Rose, 29, fills the spot vacated by Carol Moskot, who left the St. Joseph Media city mag last June to launch Jewish Living in New York.

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Rose’s experience includes a term as a designer with Pod 10 Art & Design, led by creative director Carmen Dunjko. She's also worked as the art director/curator for the Drake Hotel and was an organizer for the inaugural Nuit Blanche festival in Toronto. She has a BFA from the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design and her art has been exhibited internationally.

Magazine experience is noticeably absent from this resumé, but Toronto Life editor-in-chief Sarah Fulford says great ideas, creative vision and contemporary sensibility—things she believes Rose has an abundance of—are “much more important than understanding the machinations of a magazine.”

Nevertheless, Rose will have to learn quickly, which is why Louis Fischauf, who has been serving as interim art director, will stay on for a few months as design director.

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