In previous posts I have written about my two ongoing assignments for the NYTimes, here are this week’s installments:
On the Road was this week was about all the flights canceled in February due to severe weather.
Science was about how yeast fermentation in the Dungwort flower causes it to heat up a few degrees.
In previous posts I have written about my two ongoing assignments for the Times, here are last week’s installments:
On the Road was about business jet travel slowly returning after a lull caused by the public outcry against corporate perks.
The Science story was about how pregnant crickets prenatally warn their offspring about predators.
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…
…but it felt pretty blah. So I added some space whoosh, then a little spot color and…done.
This one was about the outlook for the bond bubble. I sent both of these and the full color version ran.
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:
And here is the final:
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.
This is the most recent illustration I did for The New York Times Book Review, from last month:
For illustration, the Book Review is an institution. Every Sunday when I was a student, I would get the paper and check there first to see who was working – Niemann, Mirko, Richard McGuire, Boris Kulikov, Robert Grossman’s color spots on the back page; it was a ritual. In addition to (and on occasion, instead of) whatever academic tasks I had on my desk, I would take selections each week from the Book Review to illustrate, my own extracurricular job training. It seemed so mysterious to me then, as if it had its own esoteric style, not illustration style per se, but a methodology, and one that seemed more abstract in terms of the relationship between word and image. Whether that assessment was an accurate one or not, it is how I have approached the assignments, and why I’ve enjoyed working for them so much over the past ten years.
In previous posts I have written about my two ongoing assignments for the Times, here are last week’s installments:
The Road column last week was on the end of gluttonous trade show after-parties.
The Science story was about how fishing boats can change the foraging patterns of seabirds.
