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September 2nd, 2010

Back to it

I spent August taking long weekends and keeping my workload light. I haven’t been updating the blog as regularly as I should. Ah, summer. But, September is here. It’s time for some self-promotion…better hop to it.

Here are the past four weeks of the NYTimes business travel spots – Flight attendants as refs in the war over carry-on bin space, business travel bouncing back, flight attendants give their perspective on air travel:

Last week I was supposed to have a sub but no one got that memo. In a pinch, I did one sketch with my daughter’s crayon while having breakfast in a Philadelphia hotel (and sent a photo from my phone) – the long-awaited 787 is coming:

Spot for a Remodeling article titled “Have I Got a Guy for You”, about giving rewards for referrals:

Two weeks of Science Times – the emotions of animals and science confirms the best way to pour your champagne:

For The Washington Post, how to be a great manager:

Half-page and a spot for Women’s Health on whether or not you need a financial therapist:

Not my usual thing but the art director requested this style based on this illustration I did for The Washington Post.

More to come next week!

August 16th, 2010

The American Prospect

After many years of seeing Mary Parson’s name around, we finally got to work together on a package for The American Prospect. The illustrations were for a special report on healthcare reform and the idea was basically OK, the bill is passed; now here is everything we have to do to make it work. The feature was running both inside the magazine and as a stand-alone supplement in another publication with the full-page opener being the cover for the latter…hmm, no pressure…

Here is the final:

And here is the supplement (with me pretending I’m casually reading it):

And here are the four spots that ran throughout the story:

August 3rd, 2010

Catching up…

June and July have been super busy so I’ll be playing catch-up with posting assignments for the next couple of weeks. First, this one for the NYTimes was about the transition from high school to college freshmen. I tried something a little different here and I was pretty happy with how it turned out. Unfortunately, the production people at the NYT got a little overzealous with the saturation so the version running online is way off…that drives me crazy:

I got the news that after nearly 8 years, the illustrated Jobs column at the Washington Post will be replaced with an advertorial. Here is what will be one of the last Jobs illustrations, about whether or not you should disclose your pregnancy during the interview process:

The past 2 weeks of Road spots for the NYTimes – travelers’ concerns about radiation from the new body imaging machines and how frequent flier award points are becoming increasingly worthless:

Science this week was about how an elastic band changes shape as it rolls more quickly (tough one):

This was an interesting call from Smart Money – basically they were going to buy a piece of my stock, which looked more or less the same as this, but then realized the generic sampling of classified jobs I originally used wasn’t appropriate for a business magazine. So I changed the text in the job descriptions, and updated the rest of the drawing a little and dashed it off:

Finally a quarter-page for Seattle Monthly about the insanity of bank overdraft fees and the public’s poor money management skills, resulting in the $35 latte:

There are a few new items on TipTopGash as well, and more coming soon!

July 7th, 2010

New and Newish

Here are a few assignments from June, and a couple from last week…

First, a quarter-page for Hanley Wood Business Media about sales reps for contractors and the system for selling products to homeowners:

Two small spots for AARP Bulletin – one about new programs for reporting crimes online and another about libraries offering programs for people who are housebound:

A quarter-page for Security Management about safety concerns for those traveling abroad for work:

Two weeks of the business travel column in the NYTimes – reaction to passengers stranded on a runway for three hours with no air conditioning and why hotel guests are a favorite target for credit card hackers:

Science Times last week was about how brain physiology differs for different personalities (I actually preferred this sketch as an image, but I understand why they chose the other one):

And Science this week was on Zebra Finches and how stronger vocal muscles mean more complex song:

June 22nd, 2010

Recent work and a new sketchblog

My sketchblog is finally up and running on Tumblr. There’s a link on the homepage or you can go there from here. There’s only a few posts at the moment but I’ll be adding more this week and then updating regularly.

A few weeks ago I had to illustrate a half-page for an American Medical News business feature. It was about all the IT tasks that need to be done in a medical practice to keep the system running smoothly. Here is the sketch package – Post-its computer, pixelated check marks, and those old note pads with little cartoon illos on each page:

And this was the final page:

Last week’s NYTimes business travel column was about the hassles of flying during the summer:

Science Times this week was on Mesoamerican civilizations and how they developed different techniques for processing rubber, depending on what the rubber was to be used for:

And finally Crain’s New York Business on executive compensation and how some CEOs are going along with new pay structures (and some aren’t):

June 14th, 2010

New Work Roundup Part 1

I always think that if I’m not posting regularly it gives the impression that I have nothing new to show, but in fact the opposite is true. It’s been hopping lately and there’s just not enough time to get to everything, and updating the blog and the galleries had to wait. Here is a quick roundup of a few recent spots and quarters, with more on the way, as well as some news about a year-long book project that’s nearly finished, a couple of proposals I’m still waiting to hear back on and a link to my new sketchblog.

Since the beginning of the year, I’ve done a spot about once a month for The Weekly Standard. They are funny, apolitical one-offs for the front of the book. This one was about a guy who travels with tons of nicotine lozenges due to their spotty availability overseas (he has learned to ask for them in 12 different languages or something like that):

This was the Jobs section cover art for The Washington Post about how to get work without experience:

As I mentioned in many earlier posts, I do a spot every Tuesday for Biz Day in the NYTimes. This one was about the number of unclaimed miles in the frequent flyer system:

And this was another Washington Post Jobs cover about a manager who gets treated like a junior employee by an older colleague:

April 26th, 2010

More spots

The past few weeks in spots…

First, this was for a column in Macworld:

This was for a story in The Wall Street Journal on the downside of income-producing investments during retirement:

Then this one for Golf World about the World Golf Hall of Fame moving its annual ceremony from Florida to New York:

These little spots were for the New York Times Education Life special feature about paying for college:

Then one for Golf Digest about using Twitter to find lower airfares:

Three icons for AARP the Magazine, for a cruise tips sidebar (not my usual colors but they had to match the section):

And finally the NYT Business Day spots from the past two weeks – using business jets to fill gaps in commercial flights and how teleconferencing has been used by businesses grounded by the volcanic ash:

March 28th, 2010

Lots o’ spots-o

Work has been busy lately, I have to say, spots, covers, all the stuff in between, it’s been pretty good. Here are a few spots from the past couple of weeks, with more to come shortly…

I’m sure I have mentioned how much I like Philip Chalk at The Weekly Standard, great guy, funny and a pleasure to work for. Like all the jobs I’ve done for them, this was for the Casual page, an apolitical offering each month from the editors. I never saw the story on this one, Philip just said they needed a guy at his desk who looked pained by stupid phone calls, and there had to be a bible in there somewhere (I know, I know, we don’t like to be told what to draw, but like any weekly magazine, things move pretty fast over there and sometimes when a narrative solution is best, there’s nothing wrong with an art director who knows what he wants).

This was a small spot for The Wall Street Journal about municipal bonds.

I am rolling the Science Times regular into this post, just for this week. The column was about scientists who have determined how to eliminate turbulence inside pipelines.

This assignment for Bob Mansfield at Forbes was one of those rare gems. It was for a marketing story about Proctor and Gamble’s new line of men’s grooming products for maintaining…you know, down there. Now, Bob has a bone-dry sense of humor and so naturally I figured he was kidding, particularly when he said the tagline for the products was “Trimming the bushes makes the tree look bigger”. I don’t regularly read Forbes, or Hustler, but still I was pretty sure they were very different magazines. So, how does one illustrate that? Well, for starters, not like this:

Just a little more delicately, like so:

I still can’t figure out why this one got shot down…

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