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April 30th, 2013

NYObserver and WSJ Covers

Here are two cover assignments from the past couple of weeks. The first one was for The New York Observer, for a feature about women looking for hunky country dudes at farmers’ markets. Here are some of the rejects (is that a carrot in your pocket, lady?):

I almost never do cartoon line drawings anymore but it seemed like the right feel for this one. And even though I still can’t believe they picked this, here is the cover that ran:

About two years ago The Wall Street Journal asked me to do a Lichtenstein-style treatment for a spot which lead to this cover last weekend:

Thanks to Ed, Lauren and Mark for both assignments!

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!

January 3rd, 2012

Happy 2012

Happy New Year, visitor!

Here are the past couple of weeks of Science and BizDay spots from the NYTimes…

Rats will free a trapped cage mate even if there is no reward involved:

A giant gas cloud is being sucked into the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy:

Drought and poor water management contributed to the collapse of the Khmer empire:

And for Business Day – two columns about a train ride up the east coast and a follow up to the column about all the guns that show up at airport checkpoints:

And finally for the New York Observer for an article about a Chinatown smoke shop where machines roll your cigarettes for you. This little trick means they can skirt NYC cigarette “pack” tax and charge only three bucks for 20 smokes. Needless to say, they are taking over the city and the mayor is fuming.

Thanks to Peter, Joe and Scott.

Chris Gash

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Posts Tagged ‘New York Observer’

NYObserver and WSJ Covers

Spots, I Love Charts book and off to ICON 7

May update

Happy 2012