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April 26th, 2010

More spots

The past few weeks in spots…

First, this was for a column in Macworld:

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

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

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

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

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

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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:

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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).

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

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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.

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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:

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Just a little more delicately, like so:

GROOMING

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

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February 21st, 2010

Wall Street – 2, Washington -1

Here are a few spots from the past month, two for The Wall Street Journal, one for The Washington Post.  This first one was for the WSJ Europe Edition, about space junk.  I thought I was finished when I got here…

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…but it felt pretty blah.  So I added some space whoosh, then a little spot color and…done.

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This one was about the outlook for the bond bubble.  I sent both of these and the full color version ran.

BUBBLE

As I mentioned in a previous post, I have a regular assignment for The Washington Post’s Sunday Jobs cover. The illustration is paired with a job market Q&A feature called How to Deal.  This Q was from a young woman seeking advice on how to tell prospective employers that she left her last job to follow her boyfriend to a new city for grad school.  I definitely had fun with this one – nothing too cerebral, just mixing and matching romance cliches with office imagery.   I sent these five sketches feeling pretty darn good about all of them:

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And here is the final:

ROMANCE

This isn’t my usual thing, but it just seemed so right for the story, and the art director and editor were all in agreement.  This style of comic imagery is perfect for satire – there is so much melodrama built into them already and everyone gets that, it’s automatic, instant.