Tim Markatos is a designer, critic, and photographer who lives in Washington, D.C.
He is currently the UX designer for the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service. He also writes a monthly newsletter about movies, which you can read and subscribe to here.
Design
Partnership for Public Service
Website redesign for the organization’s 20th anniversary
Service to America Medals
Website redesign for the awards program honoring outstanding federal employees
Go Government
Resource center connecting young jobseekers to careers in government
Lacuna Magazine
Prototype for the first-ever magazine of no ideas
Selected Writing
Film Criticism
Resisting the Tyranny of the Clock ↗
Review of Unrest and R.M.N. for Plough
A Solitary Anarchist ↗
Review of Criterion Channel’s Nikos Papatakis retrospective for Commonweal
To Srebrenica, Suffering Again ↗
Essay on filmed representations of war and Jasmila Žbanić’s Quo Vadis, Aida? for Athwart
Two Identities, One Faith ↗
Centennial biography of Éric Rohmer for Plough
Eschatology Gone Wild ↗
Essay on cinematic provocation and religious apocalyptic thinking for Full Stop
Better Living Through Minimalism ↗
Essay on the aesthetics of animation and Isao Takahata’s The Tale of the Princess Kaguya for Bright Wall Dark Room
Book Reviews
Orthodoxy and Queerness ↗
Review of “Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality” for Commonweal
Remoralizing Sex ↗
Review of Rethinking Sex: A Provocation for The Bias