Chris Gash

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.

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:

Way back in November 2009, I posted some billboards from around Philadelphia for Emergency Dentist 24/7. The signage featured Toothy, an ailing spokescharacter I did for them a couple of years ago. While in Philly last week for a meeting about some new possibilities for said character, I spotted a new Toothy:

What’s in the new sketchblog?  Everything that isn’t work…like this:

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):