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February 5th, 2013

Success Magazine

After leaving the Dallas Observer, fans of the talented Alex Flores tearily wondered when and where we would get to work with him again. The answer is at Success, a business magazine in Dallas where he is freelance art directing. Alex called me to do a full page for a feature on the perils of procrastinating at work. As always, it was a pleasure to work with someone who has so much energy and loves illustration. Here is the final:

And this is one of the rejects that I really had a tough time parting with, so it gets honorable mention here:

Thanks to Alex for the assignment, thanks to you for visiting!

May 3rd, 2012

May update

I keep saying I’m going to post new work more regularly, and I keep failing pretty miserably. But, enough is enough, it all ends right now. Mark my words: Never again will I say I’m going to post more regularly! There, that’s that.

This full-page for Adweek was one of the more conceptually challenging assignments I’ve tackled in a while. I went through countless sketches trying to find the ideal way to show ’cause marketing in social gaming’ (between you and me, I’m not sure I ever got there, but I think it turned out to be a nice package anyway):

This opener for Sierra Magazine (the Sierra Club) about the public backlash to the new digital “smart” utility meters:

Here is just one rejected sketch that I wanted to make some room on the shelf for:

This spot for Golf Digest was about how to “sniff out” some additional yards in your drive (your driver is also known as “the big dog”):

Here are three little spots for New Jersey Monthly’s Best of New Jersey issue (I never say no to my hometown mag):

This spot for the New York Observer’s Scooter title was about parents who worry about their “Google trail”:

Here is an opener for American Medical News about how doctors get into trouble when borrowing money:

Here it is on the page:

And here are the rejects, though I may try to use these somewhere down the line…

Here are the past two weeks of On the Road in the NYTimes Biz Day. With these two I crossed the 10 year mark illustrating this column and next week I’ll be posting a look back at a decade of these spots. The first one was about the randomness of hotel and airline pricing followed by new ways to track expenses on the road:

Finally, lots of new posts on Drawing Science, if you want to have a visit. Here are two of my favorites from the past month of Science Times – Spectators experience heightened motor activity in the brain while watching a dance performance; bowerbirds cultivate plants with ornamental fruits to decorate their mating nest:

The latter made an appearance on Live with Kelly this past Tuesday as a matter of fact:

Thanks to all the great ADs who worked with me on these – Peter, Joe and Phyllis, Jennifer, Scott, Greg, Doug, Tracy and Nick!

July 27th, 2011

Full page for Adweek

A few weeks ago I did another full page for Adweek, with another super-fast turnaround, for an article about protecting your brand’s reputation. Here is the final:

And here it is in the layout, with the final crumpled treatment:

Thanks to Nick.

July 5th, 2011

Adweek package

I like to work fast, and this job for Adweek certainly obliged – the package came in on Tuesday afternoon and was out the door by Thursday midday. The feature was about the value of virtual currencies like Facebook Credits or Farm Cash:

And the spots:

Thanks to Nick!

June 10th, 2011

Phoenix New Times

I took note of some great PNT covers this past year and I was very pleased to receive a call to do one. The story wasn’t in yet and they weren’t certain of the direction it was going in – I just had to run with the idea that there’s this clinic, and they use this futuristic head-gear for their diagnostics, but it’s sort of pseudoscience-y, and they think everyone has Lyme’s disease. Medical, futuristic, pseudoscience, ticks – here was my initial batch of sketches:

They liked the digital mapping tick-man, the DaVinci and the circuitry sketches, but asked if I would develop the circuit idea more. The next day I sent these, which I was happy with and thought for sure I was closing in on a winner:

But after a discussion with the writer, it turns out that the DaVinci was closest to the mark for the tone of the article. Here is the final cover:

Thanks to Pete at Phoenix New Times for being a great AD and a lot of fun on the phone.

June 1st, 2011

Newish work

I try to post work in a logical fashion, grouping certain jobs together in a way that makes sense – and some pieces I want to leave as top billing in the blog for more than a week, but that means some assignments end up sitting until they are off the newsstand or even downright dusty. So, before they get any older…

This was a piece for the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine about the adjunct situation at most universities – overworked and underpaid. I wanted the figures to be almost identical except for their props since the idea is that these professors are equally qualified:

This spot for Golf Digest was for a column about how to calm your first tee jitters:

And this one for Remodeling Magazine was for an article on a builder who finishes projects in foreclosed homes:

This opener for American Medical News was for a feature about the vast information available to doctors via electronic medical records:

And one of my favorite art directors is at the Wall Street Journal now and I did this spot for her about trail apps for hikers (I included a couple of the rejects that I also liked):

And finally, here is a full page I did in September. Happily, I am not that far behind on posting but the job got held for nearly six months before ultimately getting killed. The story was about the benefits of Kegel exercises for women – needless to say I had to do a little dance on this one, but after all that the whole article went down anyway. Ah well…

May 17th, 2011

Painkiller foods

Dian at AARP is a real ace. At the beginning of this job, we had a nice chat about working with illustrators and how she likes to challenge an artist with hand-lettering or a portrait or anything they may not typically do to see if she can get something interesting and fresh. She really values the process and is a wonderful art director to work with.

The assignment was for a feature about foods with pain-killing properties – a full page opener, a typographic treatment for the hed, and seven bullet icons for each of the foods. The article was originally titled “Painkillers in Your Pantry”, here are the sketches I sent for the full-page and the illustrated headline:

I got the go-ahead on one of the sketches for the opener and the can labels for the headline. While working on the final for the full-page, the title of the article was changed to “Painkillers on Your Plate”, which nixed the idea of the cans and required new sketches by the next morning. After a little back and forth, we decided to illustrate “Plate” and use a typeface for the rest of the text. Here is the final art for “Plate”:

I should mention here that this feature was going in the 70+ edition and it was decided after everything was completed that it might be difficult to read (demographically speaking). The spread finally ran as follows:

That was a little bit of a letdown but Dian designed a really powerful opening spread and it looked great in print. And here are the icons:

This feature is in the current issue of AARP The Magazine.

April 20th, 2011

Boston Globe Magazine and more

This update is way overdue…

For the Boston Globe Magazine, this was one of my favorite illustrations of the year so far – it was for an article about a couple who spent three painfully hot days in July at an Arizona golf camp:

This opener for American Medical News was for a feature about hospitals trying to reduce the number of readmitted patients:

For Crain’s New York Business, this was for the Health Care Report feature about how patient feedback surveys will affect the state funding for some hospitals:

That’s it for now. As soon as school wraps I’ll be posting more work more regularly!

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