Chris Gash

Here are a few months of Golf Digest spots…

First, tips for golfing in the windy and rainy Spring:

Here are a few of the rejected sketches:

This one was for a story about golfers and lower back pain:

This was a little spot for a sidebar about very difficult bunkers:

Here were some of the leftovers for this one:

How your club shapes your swing:

This was another small sidebar spot about how pros almost never miss when they are putting within 5 feet of the hole:

How young is too young to get your kids interested in golf:

Thanks to Doug and the gang at Golf Digest for all the great assignments!

Here is a recent assignment for one of my favorite and oldest clients – a feature opener for a story about medical practices making their websites accessible for people with disabilities:

Here is one of the runners-up that I also liked and wanted to share:

Thanks to Jef and Jennifer!

Last month marked 11 years that I have illustrated Joe Sharkey’s On the Road column for The New York Times. 11 years is a great run by any measure, but as much as I loved the assignment, I felt like it was time to move on. This past Tuesday was my last spot for the column, about biometrics and other technology that will hopefully improve security at Customs. Here it is, followed by a little retrospective of some old favorites:

These go way back, some before color on the page – passing the torch at the TSA, airline site designed for women, runway delays, and marketers target jet-lagged travelers:

I have ripped off airplane safety diagrams countless times as you can see here – the difficulty of upgrading your seat, in-flight live entertainment, banning personal items in seat-back pockets, more guns showing up at airports, passengers boarding with giant carry-ons to avoid bag check fees, and passengers need to know emergency protocols if they sit by the door:

Over the decade plus, I changed up the look of the column many times to keep it fun, including using photos – business travelers keeping receipts, airline fees, and airport fees:

Here were two spots of many about weather – the first in the lead up to Sandy, which none of us expected to be more than an inconvenience, hence the lighthearted tone. The other for that winter a few years ago where the constant snow had planes stranded in Newark and JFK:

Two of several columns about the rebounding hotel industry:

The race for wifi on every plane; the writer jumps ship from the Queen Mary to find a wifi connection:

Here are just a few of the many TSA stories we did – freeze drills at checkpoints, body-imaging first comes to airports, more recently the battle rages on against body-imaging, and the backlash against lifting the ban on pocket knives (even though you could already bring knitting needles, scissors and hockey sticks on board):

Two consecutive weeks about yellow light traffic cameras:

We also did a lot about the general difficulty of flying, just getting from A to B:

And fees – the randomness of add-on fees, the most expensive cities for travel taxes, the corporate spending bonanza at the Superbowl, and traveling on a tight budget:

Every summer Joe would write about the peak season and all the crowding on planes, here are a few of those:

And finally a few random ones that I liked – in-flight movies, who invented wheeled luggage, travel stories, shrinking international service, the state of affairs for flight attendants, and disgruntled flight attendants:

Thanks to Joe Sharkey for all the great columns, to Phyllis, Minh, Zvi and James for always working with me on scheduling holiday delivery, to Brent, our original editor, and to Steve Heller, who originally dropped my name to Brent when the Times was first looking for an illustrator for this. Thank you, thank you, thank you! And, like I always said I would, following my resignation I finally told Joe that I am deathly afraid of flying and have never set foot on a plane in my life.

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!

After admiring all the animated illustration that has been appearing the NYTimes it was very exciting to get a call to do one! It was for the Letters page about attorneys who use delay tactics to stall court proceedings. I wanted the motion to seem integral to the concept and not just like a gimmicky add-on, but it also had to work as a still image for print, so it couldn’t rely entirely on the animation either. Thanks so much to Alexandra for a really fun and challenging assignment. Here is the static image that ran in the paper:

And here is the animated version that ran online: