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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!

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 8th, 2012

10 Years On the Road

Last month marked my 10 year anniversary illustrating Joe Sharkey’s On the Road column in the New York Times. I really can’t believe it lasted this long. As I have mentioned here before, Joe and I do this job over the weekend without an art director, and our wonderful editor only sees the final spot art on Monday morning when it’s due. It’s been a great run and in all these years we’ve never had so much as a hiccup in our process. As I post this recap of some of my favorite spots, I want to say thank you again to Joe Sharkey for such a great weekly assignment, and to Steve Heller, who recommended me for it way back when…

When we started this column, it was a black and white page. Color only came when there needed to be a version for the web, and since then the printed page has gone from black and white to color and back again. This first oldie from the pre-color days was about how people are perceived differently at airport checkpoints; then products targeting road-weary and jet-lagged travelers; finally, the first of many spots to come about the costs associated with air travel:

One of the biggest challenges of illustrating this column for so long is that we inevitably encounter the same topics. Here are some examples of subjects we’ve tackled twice or more, starting with wi-fi on airplanes:

Rebounding business for hotels:

Collecting receipts for expense reports:

The new yellow light traffic cams:

Taxes associated with travel:

And all the many ways the airlines try to cram more people and bags onto planes:

Probably one of the biggest recurring themes is the TSA. Here are six from the many weeks where airport security made the news – Body scanners; concerns about radiation from body scanners; change of leadership at the TSA; new ways to move people more quickly through security; TSA freeze drills at checkpoints; Clear program expands to expedite security checks:

Here are some spots from news of the day that came and went – Swine flu concerns on airplanes; airlines ban use of seat-back pockets for personal items; disgruntled airline attendants:

Joe has had his time wasted by the providers of all manner of transportation. Here are a few spots about that – Taking a little engine that could up the east coast; the summer of runway delays; planes grounded by snowstorms:

As we carried on and I got more comfortable with a weekly post, I would try out some different things to keep it interesting – I love those airplane emergency diagrams and I try to get all MAD Magazine with them whenever possible:

And for these two back to back columns about airline and then airport fees, I tried a little Photoshop magic:

But most of the time, it’s a straight spot illo. And here are just a few more that I liked – Travelers who constantly fly around the country for business meetings; airline alliances; traveling on a tight budget; the invention of the suitcase with wheels:

Some weeks it’s almost shameful that I get to do things like this. The column was about people who are still happy to travel, in spite of all the inconveniences mentioned above, and this seemed to say that exactly:

So one last time, thanks to Joe, Phyllis, Brent, and everyone at the Times. Here’s to many more.

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!

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