Ke$ha, Ipad, Lady Gaga, I.S.O

april fools!! disregard that title, more of a little game Im playing with analytics - speaking of which - i seeeee yyyyoooouuuuuuu.
...anyway - I recently did a Bunch of pieces for I.S.O&Agent Magazine (the magazine about credit card terminals and the people that sell them of course). The very nice AD approached me with some ideas - asked if i'd pitch some too and off we went. In the end the editor decided to go with their initial ideas (except for one) but I thought I'd post some of mine too. while Im not going to post everything (gotta save some for a rainy day) it was a fun project and I really pleased to have worked with them!!!
First -the coverThe AD gave me the brief of "struggling with cash" - the agents want cash and its difficult to get
There were lots of other ideas too.
Next, a spot about navigating the peaks and valleys / finding opportunity /shortcuts
this one was my idea!!!! heres some more roughs
currently being painted as a spring promo

lots of others, but this is already a longass post ... we'll do one more - save the rest for a later date
small feature about I.S.O's going global / expanding the global market - their pitched idea chosen (and not unlike one i've done before)
lots more ideas here too. Anyway, Thanks Galina - this was lots of fun!!!
more soon...

apparently i like drawing pencils...

(see post below)
This piece was a spot for The New Republic about education reform and national standards. I really liked the final idea, because i wanted to focus on reform being a time of rebirth, growth, and opportunity. really amazing AD, and really amazing magazine - they use a lot of cool illustration. Thanks for reading :)

MGI

I was really happy when asked if i would like to design the next promo for my rep Morgan Gaynin - They wanted an image that would show them as industry leaders. I took some time and gave it some thought and came back with the idea of an orchestra conductor (leader) but instead of holding a baton, the conductor would be holding a pencil (nice way to show leading illustration). The all female organization had the great idea to have the conductor be a woman (i had originally drawn a man (do all guys do that?)) and thus began piecing it together and drawing it out. a final cherry on top was using the morgan gaynin logo for cuff links. I was so happy with this idea, and really pleased with the execution, for a change. Thanks Vicki and Gail for asking me to represent you for once :)

Wall Street Journal

So, I was pleased as punch to be able to do this recent piece for the Wall Street Journal. Its for a section written by Steve and Levi Yoder - a father and son team that discuss personal financial issues. In fact, my old pal Mike Byers did a piece for this section some time ago (which can be seen here ). Anyway, MY article was in response to the sunday letters they receive. Lots of roughs, but i really liked the idea of them responding to the specific dates the letters came in- thus a calendar, and its a well known fact that calendars look like shelves in a mailroom - so that worked nicely for the metaphor. Finally, let me just say that I started the piece around 6pm that night before it was due (noon the next day) - so a nice fast turn around meant the paint barely had time to dry (not really, its acrylic - so dries pretty fast.) ok, im done. thanks for reading.

crap...

For an article about the olympic clean-up, it talked about the shock to Vancouver's waste system / the cities "eco system". Pretty gross stuff / pretty obvious solution.

Oscar Charticle

I recently did a few small spots for the LATimes for a charticle about the Oscars. Seems most of my work for them involves the Oscars, but Im not complaining - its always a joy to work with Wes. All 4 were painted in about 12 hours. It was a race, but fun to push it
these first two spots were about actors and directors predicting the outcomes...
we also played with hiding the identity of the producer and then a little paining of the Oscar
finally, the whole thing laid out - believe it or not there were about 10 rough ideas per spot - some cool ideas, but like always Wes picked what would work best. Thanks for reading

Gotta say...

I was pretty happy to be a part of this! First "letters" piece for the nytimes - Nice, short deadline - but it certainly does get lots of ideas flowing!! The piece was about "opinions on the healthcare summit" - Thanks Aviva, really appreciate the opportunity!!
Read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/opinion/l27health.html

putter' there

Just a little promo about "standing out from the crowd"

you shoes you lose

This piece was for CIO magazine - about a specific website that is using video to sell their merchandise (shoes) - video helps it be more interactive etc. In the roughs i supplied i provided both solutions to the concept of video providing money - and also videos relationship to shoes.
heres some roughs, there were many more...loved this idea - so simple, the pyramid turned on its side - very much the play icon

Las Vegas Weekly Cover

This image was for the cover of Las Vegas Weekly. The feature was about Nevada losing its edge - through roughs i realized that a guillotine blade with a broken edge looks EXACTLY like the state of Nevada and is perfectly clear for the concept of losing an edge. What an amazingly fortunate coincidence. Above is the image (cropped a bit) and i'll post the cover image with the text and title asap - still 100% painted. Below 4 of 11 rough ideas. Thanks so much to Ryan, great to get to work with you! More soon
turning down the vegas sign - "W" doubles as a dimmer switch
talked about the influx of Republicans to the state - thought it would be a neat image to be "shuffling" the two parties together
starts edgy - ends conservative
broken heel
cover :)