HAPPY 4TH OF JULY

my American brothers and sisters!

eat smores!

van damage

Hello friends,
Sorry to be so MIA the last little bit,  - I just returned from a few weeks spent in NY and at the ICON illustration conference.  A little about that: EVERYONE I met was so lovely - and many standouts within that group. I seriously had the best time. Thanks to Dan and Chris for rooming with me. Im feeling really inspired, and excited to try a bunch of new work directions. Anyway I need to get back to posting work, cause theres a crazy surplus built up -
Heres the start - recently i did the cover for Harvard's alumni magazine. It was a great challenge, as the image had to represent 3 separate articles clearly. Fortunately, the each bit of writing seemed to have one thing in common: Americas damaged democracy. I tinkered around a LOT, and tried to come up with an image that showed democracy in trouble, and Americas attempts to band aid it with various bureaucracy. In a fortunate visual overlap, i realized the stripes on the flag could double as red tape - and thats how we got to this idea! - Fun one, i think. I will also quickly say I needed to leave a large area on the left for a scan code to be placed, which made this composition a bit tricky. 

 and some of the 24 different ideas i sent in. i know, 24 is silly - but with great subject matter who wants to stop, right?!

golf of mexico

New piece for Golf World, about score leaders choking in the last stretch because they choke under the pressure - the scoreboard starts creeping into mind, and it becomes a mental barrier. roughs:

meow

new cover for Miami New Times, about police set ups, where essentially cops get a house, have criminals break in, and then the cops shoot them all once they're inside. Most of my roughs played with showing cops, and the situation, but the one that was picked had a feeling of a panther about to pounce - seemed appropriate. subbed some house windows for the eyes, and bobs your uncle.

Some roughs below:

Back in the saddle

Sorry Ive been away from my blog for so long, dear reader. The truth is, things have been so hectic around here I've had very little time for anything but work, and I have been focused on getting outside with what little time i do have - Thus, im going to start updating work in bulk, because there are just too many projects to do one at a time. Im sorry, as soon as im caught up, i'll get back to my regular - in the mean time, heres the first post of new work.

For Nexus magazine, about laws protecting prostitutes:

For Education Forum, a personal story about a teacher traveling to other counties to supply teach


For Utne, about the death of female soldiers - in hindsight this piece reminds me a bit of a piece by Dan Hertzberg, about healthcare - Sorry Hertz, yours is better.

For Money Sense about family debt, in ratio to lifestyle spending.


4 more new pieces to be posted later this week, and so on and so on till we're caught up.

Baywatch

Cool spread and spot I recently did with my old friend Steve at Canadian Wildlife. The article was about how Canada is not living up to their responsibility to protect our oceans from things like over-fishing, pollution etc. I thought a lot about the best way to show this, and tried a lot of ideas - until the perfectly simple idea of a lifeguard, in his tower turned AWAY from the ocean, rather than monitoring it came to me. I was so excited about that idea I almost pitched only it - but then i pitched a bunch of others too. Nice of Steve to trust me with some hand lettering as well.
Heres the spot:and some of the sketches i sent:

Gnome Chomsky

Its Promo time! Wanted to do a fun, spring-time image! I tried to think of the birds and bee's and courtship and all of that. Keep your eyes peeled for a postcard, AD's.