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January 22nd, 2013

Newish and Newish-er

Golf Digest has become a very regular job, and I never get tired of it. I think it has something to do with all that green. This column was about how to pick the perfect club for your game. For the final I wanted to try playing off the golf instructional diagrams – simple, fixed-width line, very basic shapes, flat color. I think it worked nicely with the content of the image:

Here are some of the other ideas I sent:

Here is a batch of icons I did last month for AARP for repeat use with their web content. They had to be simple, immediate reads and generic enough that they could work over and over.

Things move pretty quickly over LA Magazine. I did a fast turnaround on these little office exercises for my first assignment with them:

And here is the Science Times spot from last week. It was about how China’s one-child policy has created children who are anxious, untrusting and risk-averse.

You can read more about this and all the Science Times illustrations at Drawing Science. Thanks to Doug, Dian, Steve and Peter!

December 6th, 2012

Spotty McSpotterson

I have a long line of spots queued up for posting so here goes…

This first one was for a Golf Digest column about how you should wait until the off season to make big changes in your swing. The writer refers to those changes as “major surgery” and the editors wanted to focus on that for the art. Here is the final:

And here are a few of the leftovers:

This was for the ESPN column I’ve been illustrating since August. It was about the oldest Turkey Trot going, 120 plus years:

This was for the NYTimes Science Times about grasshoppers that need to change their mating call to be heard over traffic noise:

And finally this fun little o-meter for a short piece in AARP The Magazine about going out to dinner with an ex, and the spectrum of innocent to steamy:

Thanks to Doug, Martin, Peter and Joanna!

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 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!

June 7th, 2012

Spots, I Love Charts book and off to ICON 7

Here are a few recent editorial assignments…

This was for the back page of the NYTimes Book Review. It was an essay about Erich Segal’s novel “The Class” and other books on Harvard culture. At the top of the assignment I was told it would be best to not have books in the art but this just worked, so I sent it, and they picked it:

Here is the runner-up:

This quarter-page for AARP was for a Q&A about a son who wants his father to stop driving. The dad feels he is cured after his cataract surgery but his driving tells a different story:

Here are two ideas from the scrap heap worth sharing:

This little spot was for a column in the New York Observer about a guy who discovers what he loves about nature – that it doesn’t give a crap about mankind. It was totally irreverent and a lot of fun to work on:

Here are two that got away:

This was a small spot for Golf Digest about “thumping” the ball in a sand bunker:

And here are a few recent spots for On the Road in the NYTimes – A young woman talks about aspiring to be a flight attendant in spite of all the drawbacks; passengers are still bringing concealed weapons onto airplanes; United Airlines is testing a new policy of checking bags (and charging passengers) for oversized bags in the overhead bins:

I just added some new posts to the DrawingScience blog which you can check out here. This spot for Science Times this week about how men’s offices are crawling with bacteria (just a tip in case you don’t read the article, I wouldn’t touch the chair or the phone):

And finally before I head off to ICON next week, I wanted to share that one (or more) of my submissions to I Love Charts has been selected for the book. It’s a fun blog with a lot of great contributors and I recommend checking it out on Tumblr, and buying the book.

I didn’t receive my copy yet but here are a couple of my favorites that I hope made it in:

Thanks to Jason, Cody, Joe, Peter, Scott, Doug, Joanna, Dian, and Nicholas!

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!

April 2nd, 2012

Way overdue…

I have a lot to catch up on here so I’m posting some new work now and more next week…

It’s been great working regularly again for Golf Digest, I never get tired of these stories. Here are the sketches for a recent quarter-page about new rules regarding what you do to improve where your ball lands:

And here is the final on the page:

These sketches were for the Friends & Family page in AARP The Magazine. The story was about a woman who was diagnosed with osteoporosis and continues to do risky chores like cleaning her own gutters:

And the final:

I have two students doing an independent study in editorial art. I asked Alexandra at the NYTimes if she would give them a Letters assignment in real time and she was so kind to jump right in. She art directed them through one of the most stressful afternoons of their lives, but they made it. I finished the same illustration they were working on for the next day’s Letters page, and here it is:

This spot for Science was about a prehistoric rodent that developed bumps on its teeth to make chewing leaves easier. You can check out sketches and more about my weekly NYTimes Science Times spots here!

Here is a roundup of the past month of NYTimes Biz Day spots – a passenger manifesto, the follow-up column to the passenger manifesto, the new Clear program moves more passengers past checkpoints, and the general difficulty of just getting from one place to another:

And finally, after six months of total neglect, I posted some non-work work on Tip Top Gash. I’ve been participating in Francoise Mouly’s unofficial New Yorker cover blog and I had a few sketches in the runners-up, like this one for the Easter theme:

I’ll be posting whatever I send to Blown Covers on the sketch blog from now on, and hopefully some other non-work work sooner than later.

Thanks to Riva, Dian, Alexandra, Peter, Joe and Francoise!

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