Troy Griggs
Director Of Visuals (Graphics Dept.) at The New York Times
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTroy Griggs is the Director of Visuals at The New York Times Graphics department with 13 years of experience shaping visual storytelling across print and digital. He leads the department’s visual strategy, edits high-impact projects, and guides how complex data-driven stories are conceptualized and executed for a global audience. His progression from staff editor and digital designer to leadership reflects deep expertise in newsroom workflows, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and design-for-audience thinking. Troy has also brought newsroom visual innovation from roles at The Guardian and enterprise print design, pairing traditional editorial discipline with modern interactive approaches. Based in New York City, he’s known for balancing editorial judgment with craft—turning dense reporting into clear, compelling visuals that scale across platforms. An appetite for iterative problem-solving and editing nuance helps him shepherd risky, attention-grabbing graphics from concept to publication.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Florida A&M University
Github Skills (20)
adobe-illustrator8
artwork7
purecss7
photoshop7
extendscript5
read-write5
adobe4
mongodb3
ruby3
nodejs3
docker2
loader1
retina1
jquery1
responsive1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
troyericg/slumberland-explorer
May 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:13 commits in 4 months
troyericg/awesome-design
Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
An ever-growing/changing collection of tools, resources, tutorials, guidelines and examples.
Contributions:13 commits in 1 month
everpurecssguidelinesgrowingicons
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