Chris Gash

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…