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Maxwell Jones
I find the people inside a world, get their story on record, and design it so anyone can step in. Sometimes that world is a supportive-housing building in New York. Sometimes it’s a pixel artist’s studio in Tokyo.
Creative producer: documentary & editorial · New York City
I make music and publish as Lansky Jones. Maxxwell Roth is World Leaper’s fictional guide.
The through line
Same vigor, two kinds of work.
My love of words drew me to music, and to documenting things. Strip that away and what remains is a love of archiving memories, mine and other people’s. It’s the through line in everything I do, and the gas that keeps my engine revving.
My passions couldn’t sit inside, so I built the skills to let them out. I articulate and refine through design, sound and visuals until the point lands. When I have a vision, I put it out there, and I do the same for other people, with the same vigor.
Original work · founder, editor, art director
World Leaper is a magazine that treats every world as a real place you can visit, from a pixel artist’s studio in Tokyo to Pallet Town, guided by Maxxwell Roth, a child genius who travels between them.
What it shows: I built the brand, the publication and the video series from zero, and I interview, write, edit, design and ship them myself.
Visit worldleaper.com
Magazine · editor, designer
Issue №001
“If You Build It, They Will Come.” 60 pages of interviews with people who build worlds. In production.
Field Guide №001 Kamurocho. Field Guide №002 Kanto. Fictional places, reviewed like real travel destinations.
Video series · writer, host, editor
Field Guides
Travel journalism for places that don’t exist: Kamurocho, Kanto, reviewed like real destinations. Watch the full episodes
Audio Anthology is World Leaper’s magazine for your ears: original music, interviews and audio stories set in the same worlds.
Audio · producer, sound designer
Audio Anthology
The sound side of World Leaper, built from my own beats and recorded conversations. Listen on Bandcamp
World 001: MoonCore 441. An alternate Queens where Y2K really happened.
Original IP · creator
MoonCore 441
A manga set in an alternate Queens where Y2K really happened. Chapter one is in pencils.
People I’ve interviewed
World Leaper, 2025–now
Motocross SaitoPixel artist · Tokyo
Scott PopularArtist · Tokyo
WikiRapper · New York
Philip PostDesigner, dertbag · Bridgeport
Phillip T. AnnandCapsule Collection · Brooklyn- Allister LeeComing in Issue №002
City Slickers podcast, 2015–2017
- Peter Rosenberg
- Ivy Rivera
- Himanshu Suri
- Statik Selektah
- Termanology
- Nick Catchdubs
- WikiAgain for World Leaper, years later
- Phillip T. AnnandEp. 04, A Night at the Madbury · now Capsule Collection №001
Commissioned work · employer
Breaking Ground
I give every series an identity, end to end: the name, the logo, the title animation, then the interviews, shoot, edit, score and sound. The stories come from the residents and staff of a New York supportive housing nonprofit.
Property Story series
Three-minute building films. I developed the format, then produced, shot, edited, scored and sound-designed each one.
Building Culture
A documentary series about life inside the buildings, built from the identity up.
Identity · creative director
One vision, end to end
I named the series, designed the logo, animated the titles and built the sound, so every episode looks, moves and sounds like one thing.
Three more series in development: From the Ground Up, BG Blueprints and Inside the Work.
Next · producer
What’s next
Interview frameworks, production plans and first edits underway for each.
Unit tours
Apartment walkthroughs for leasing, cut twice: horizontal for YouTube and vertical for Shorts. I shot and edited them and animated the end card, so the tours carry the same identity.
Freelance client
Northern Virginia Branch of ASALH
Event flyers and identity for the local branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, built for print, email and Instagram from the same master files.
Event flyer · designer, image researcher
Yuletide in Dixie
The goal: make the flyer feel like a primary source. It reads like a page from an 1850s illustrated weekly, the kind of paper this history would have run in, so the audience meets the subject in its own era’s visual language before the talk begins. I researched and cleared the archival engraving through the Library of Congress, and kept the caption true to what it shows.
Event flyer · designer
Black Raiders of Harpers Ferry
A free talk at the Brentsville Courthouse Historic Centre, October 2026. [CLIENT TO CONFIRM]
Identity · designer
Business card for Kortnei Morris
Print and digital cards with a QR code that saves her contact, for the branch’s vice president.
Other commissions and credits
- Kent Road Sound Design · 2022–presentAssistant sound designer on the short film Tether and the feature Informal Crooks; logo and graphic design
- Apple Music & Flock Together · 2022Producer and sound designer, Taste the Sky EP: composed four of five instrumentals and recorded and mixed all vocals
- Felix Papers · 2024Logo and promotional design
- Mixed Nuts Network · 2020–2023Founder and director of a cultural community network reaching 3,000+ people
- City Slickers NYC · 2015–2017Host and producer of a NYC podcast interviewing artists; since reworked as Capsule Collection, World Leaper’s interview series
- Fool’s Gold Records · 2014–2018Engineer and artist; founded World’s Fair and Children of the Night, nearly 1M YouTube views
- Catch Me Up 2 Speed · 2021Composer and sound designer: original music for every episode
- Murkage Dave · 2022Produced “Bad Advice” on The City Needs A Hero (#6, iTunes UK Pop Albums)
Watch: Tether sound excerpt · Win4 social teasers · Children of the Night promo
Read: 10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Podcast · My Life With an $1,800 Projector · Airing My Grievances With Steph Curry
About
I grew up in New York City on Nintendo, Queens hip-hop and Japanese design. I started out making records with World’s Fair and Children of the Night, moved into sound editing and design, and now direct documentary work at Breaking Ground while publishing World Leaper.
History matters to me. I love archival work and documenting people and places while they’re still here, and I care about the places I work for. Every organization I take on, from a supportive housing nonprofit to a branch preserving African American history, I treat as personal. It’s my city and my community, and the work should hold up for the people it’s about.
Leaving a meaningful and intentional footprint is the only thing we have at the end of it all.
Contact
Available for documentary, editorial and brand storytelling projects.
tmaxjones@gmail.comBased in New York City. LinkedIn[RÉSUMÉ PDF TO ADD]