Graphic Design Portfolio

I have worked as a freelance graphic designer on a variety of academic book, article, video essay, and presentation projects, including several monographs published by Oxford University Press. I pride myself on producing attractive score excerpts and attention grabbing figures in a high, consistent quality. I have experience creating Schenkerian voice-leading graphs, metrical and formal diagrams, statistical charts, and animated scores. I charge an affordible hourly rate, working quickly to get initial drafts to you, and then meticulously to fine tune them to your needs.

I am presently open to new projects. Send inquiries here.

Testimonials

"Nate Mitchell’s design work is superb. He has a fantastic eye, a great aesthetic, and is a consummate pro when it comes to dependability, communication, delivering the goods, etc. He is my go-to whenever an author on OUP’s Studies in Music Theory needs help producing figures."

-Steven Rings, series editor of Oxford Studies in Music Theory .

"Nate is a sensitive graphic designer with a keen visual sense and extraordinary attention to detail. He didn't merely construct my music examples and figures—he developed a sophisticated visual language for my book, checked in at multiple stages of the drafting process, and spent hours making minute edits to perfect every detail. When I need tough visuals to look perfect, Nate is the person I call."

-Megan Kaes Long, author of Hearing Homophony: Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century.

Notable Credits

Books and Book Chapters

2023. V. Kofi Agawu. On African Music: Techniques, Influences, Scholarship. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2022. Yoel Greenberg. How Sonata Forms: A Bottom-Up Approach to Musical Form. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Non-score figures only)
2021. Mark Gotham et. al. Open Music Theory. Volume 2. (various examples in the "Fundamentals" unit)
2020. Megan Kaes Long. Hearing Homophony: Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2019. Richard Cohn. "Meter." In The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory. Edited by Alexander Rehding and Steven Rings. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Presentations

2019. V. Kofi Agawu. "Finding the Beat in African Music: Further Notes and Caveats." Music Studies Distinguished Guest Speaker Series, Northwestern University. (PowerPoint Presentation)

Work for My Own Publications

2023. "Variations on a Theme by K. K. Slider: Memory and Play in the Music of Animal Crossing: New Horizons." SMT-V 9 no. 4.
2020. “The Volta: A Galant Gesture of Culmination.” Music Theory Spectrum 42 no. 2: 280–304.

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