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November 26th, 2012

Rx Apps

This assignment was too…easy? Yep. Most of the time, one element is so un-visual or impossible to represent clearly as a symbol that you might sit for hours trying different concepts. For this feature opener for American Medical News, the two main ingredients of the story were so loaded with imagery that I probably edited as many sketches as I sent (not complaining, by the way). The article was about physicians prescribing apps for healthier living and preventative care. Here is the final:

Here it is on the page:

And here are a few that I liked that got canned:

Thanks to Jennifer for a not-too-tough one!

November 19th, 2012

Society of Illustrators 55

I’m very happy to announce that this spot from the NYTimes Science Times will be included in the Society of Illustrators 55 show! Thanks to Peter Morance for all the great assignments and to the judges!

You can read more about this illustration here.

November 7th, 2012

ESPN Magazine

ESPN is no stranger to illustrators, sports fans or not. Every issue of the magazine is filled with great design and illustration. I was so excited to get a call from them back in August to create a small icon that would run regularly with a column about sporting events related to the whole Mayan calendar, end of the world hoo-ha. The original idea was simply to mix Mayan imagery with sports imagery and this is how it ran for one or two weeks:

But then it turns out, according to their fact checkers, this is more Aztec than Mayan, so I redid it based on a specific Mayan calendar they sent me:

And then, after another week or so, the whole Mayan sports calendar idea went out the window. We went back to the drawing board to create something that said sports and end of the world and the idea that the column is a list of events to see before the apocalypse, that sort of thing. Here are some of the sketches that didn’t make the cut:

And here is the final:

And then after another week or so, this spot and the whole recurring image idea got canned. Now we do a different spot for each column – here is one for a college football rivalry called the “cocktail party” game:

Here are some of the leftovers for a column about a marathon in Antarctica:

And here is the final:

I would like to add that everyone at ESPN could not be nicer or easier to work with. To everyone that has been in on this – Martin, John, Linda, Meaghan and Marne – thanks so much, it’s been a lot of fun! AND, more of these coming soon!

October 1st, 2012

Spots!

Here is a roundup of some recent spot assignments…

This was for a wine magazine from Canada called Wine Access. Each year they publish their 25 Killer Wines list and this article was explaining the meaning of the label “Killer”. Illustrators avoid using words like the plague but what do you do when the article is about one word specifically? Here are some of the sketches:

And here is the final:

I have two spots in the November issue of Golf Digest. First, for The Basics section, why the perfect putting motion is like a pendulum:

And then a smaller spot for an advice column on matching your attention to your intention:

This next one was a quarter-page for Rhode Island Monthly for an article about the debate surrounding legalized gambling. Here are the rejects:

And here is the final (but don’t be surprised if those dice make an appearance somewhere down the road, too):

Here are the NYTimes Business Day spots from the past month – Drive or fly; in-flight entertainment in the aisles; more on in-flight movies; the writer leaves a fancy cruise ship hotel because they don’t have wi-fi service:

Here are two Science Times spots from September – A wasp that hunts redback spiders and the discovery of one of the earliest examples of prehistoric dentistry (check out the Drawing Science blog to see all the sketches and a weekly post from the Science Times archive):

Thanks to Teresa, Doug, Carolyn, Joe and Peter!

September 19th, 2012

Harvard Business Review cover

Last month I got a call to do a small illustration for the cover of the Harvard Business Review. The idea was simple – to have a lion tamer/business man interacting with the typography. I sent a bunch of variations and these two got cut right at the end:

Here is the final spot:

And here is the cover:

And then, about a week later, they called me back and asked me to to give them two additional keyframes for a simple animation for the iPad edition:

Super fun assignment, thanks to Karen and James!

September 9th, 2012

End of Summer, Part I

July and August were very busy months over here so I’ll be playing catch-up over the next few weeks…

This was for The Washington Post for an article about hospitals providing their own insurance for patients:

I’ve been regularly illustrating a couple of columns for Golf Digest this year which has been great. This one was about playing in the moment and not letting past bad shots interfere with your game:

This two-panel piece was for Remodeling Magazine for an article about how to reward your employees without using cash:

Here is a spot from the NYTimes Science Times about a study that used smells to discover we can learn in our sleep:

I don’t post all the Science Times illustrations here anymore but you can always visit the Drawing Science blog to see the spots, the sketches and more each week.

Here was a quick sidebar spot for AARP The Magazine about retirement calculators (I have a soft spot for this little guy):

And here is a roundup of the past few NYTimes Business Day spots – international flights shrinking as business travel season begins, movie entertainment on long-haul flights, and rants from business travelers:

Thanks to Marianne, Doug, Allison, Peter, Lesley, Joe and Phyllis!

August 8th, 2012

August 2012

Here is a quick roundup of some recent editorial work…

This was my first assignment for Worth, a magazine that been on my top 10 for some time (in fact, I’ve crossed a few names off that list this summer). The article was about how to handle your kids’ allowances:

The article was asking if they should work for the money or if contributing to the household is just part of being in a family. But, for the final, they work hard for the money:

This little series accompanied a back page piece for New Jersey Monthly about one day in traffic court:

Here is the page:

This spot for Golf Digest was for the Basics column. It talked about hitting down hard on the ball to pop it up:

This was the first illustration I’ve done for Macworld in a couple years and it was good to get back in there. The article was about Mission Control, the new desktop clutter manager for Macs:

Here is a recent spot for Science Times about how hummingbirds alter their flight in rain (you read more about this spot and other from Science here):

Here are the past four weeks of the Business Day spots for the NYTimes – more airline fees, complaints from hotel customers, and two for consecutive columns on the mess over who is sitting where on planes:

And finally, one outside my usual slot in Science Times for some how-to spots for arthritis sufferers:

This month I will be making some much needed updates to the site, so I apologize now if the galleries are a little mixed up over the next couple weeks.

Thanks for looking, and thanks to all the ADs here – Pam, Greg, Doug, Rob, Peter, Joe and Phyllis!

July 10th, 2012

July roundup

I love the NYT Book Review. I love that I feel like I can try something simple and narrative and draw the whole thing in pencil and have it be OK. This was just in Sunday’s paper for a book called Beautiful Ruins:

This was a spot for Corporate Knights magazine, art directed by the inimitable Pete Ryan. I was so pleased to do this and be a part of the all-star illustrator lineup in this (and every) issue. The article was about preparedness, unpreparedness and resiliency with the effects of climate change. Here is the final and a few leftovers:

This was a quickie for The Wall Street Journal about executives who refuse to leave their post even when most of the board is voting against them:

Here is a tiny spot for Hanley Wood about sales reps acting as project managers:

This opener for American Medical News was about considering the office culture when hiring new staff:

Here is a half-page for Seattle Magazine for an article about genetically modified foods. The test tube image was what they chose and I also finished up one of the rejects just because I liked it:

And here are the past few weeks of NYTimes Biz Day columns – Business travelers want upgrades from crowded coach seats, the follow-up to upgrades column, air rage, and the debate about what to do when a family or couple asks you to move so they can sit together:

Here is a Science Times illustration from a few weeks ago about how cockroaches can fling themselves under a ledge so quickly that they seem to disappear:

You can see all the Science Times illustrations, the rejected sketches and spots from the 8 year archive at drawingscience.wordpress.com.

Thanks to Nicholas, Pete and Jack, Dan, Allison, Jennifer, Sue, Joe and Phyllis, and Peter!

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