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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 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 21st, 2010

NYT penguin eggs

Normally I would bundle a spot like this with other assignments, but I feel this one should get the spotlight. Spot-light…ha! Peter Morance, who just couldn’t be a nicer guy, not only surprised me by picking this sketch, but wanted the sketch to run as is. The story was about how penguins lay two eggs, one smaller and one larger:

And, to follow up on the homepage, there is a new animation up at tiptopgash, the first in a series of three.

July 19th, 2010

NYTimes regulars

While I wait to post some other recent assignments, here are last week’s NYTimes regulars…

On the Road was about difficulties for corporate travel managers to budget around airline hidden fees:

And just for last Tuesday I got moved off Observatory to do a spot about scientists who had discovered that protons are actually slightly smaller than originally believed – a revelation that could disprove some long-held theories:

UPDATE: It looks like the project to makeover Toothy for Emergency Dentist 24/7 may be on hold indefinitely. Boo. And last month I mentioned two proposals to NJ Monthly – a one-off humor piece and another that would be a monthly illustrated column – sadly, I wasn’t as lucky this time. Next week I’ll post one of the rejects, the other I may just pursue on my own.

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):

April 9th, 2010

4 for the Times

As I mentioned in my Ode, I love working for the Book Review. This assignment though was particularly good – an essay about bad parents (think Coraline) replacing the classic absent or dead parent (think Cinderella) in kids’ books and young adult lit. Most of my sketches were satires of children’s literary images, but since the article also covered young adult books, I included sketches like the DWI minivan colliding with the book:

The art director and editors unanimously came back with this decision:

My first ongoing assignment for the Times came from Paul Jean when he was the AD at Circuits. He has since landed at Arts & Leisure and called me to do a piece on downloading classical music. Here are the sketches:

I had sketches due that week for 5 assignments and all of them went for the one I wanted most to finish, including Paul:

So that was Sunday’s Times, and here are the two regulars from Tuesday – the Road column was about jetlag:

And the Science story was about how copper can repair its molecular structure after prolonged exposure to radiation:

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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