Read the full interview here.
Interview and Profile on Itsnicethat.com
Hana Hou Magazine Profile
I'm honored to have a profile in the June/July 2017 issue of Hawaiian Airlines' Hana Hou! magazine. Thank you to Cathay Che for the flattering prose, to Bailey Rebecca Roberts for the the beautiful photos, and to the rest of the magazine staff!
"Body and Soul" comic strip series in the New Yorker
This week, I had the honor of having four comic strips published in the New Yorker's body and fitness-themed issue.
Art direction: Françoise Mouly.
Maya Shankar and the Water In Flint Michigan
For the New Yorker magazine.
Art Direction: Aviva Michaelov
AI-AP Profile →
Thank you Robert Newman and American Illustration for the generous interview and profile.
The New Yorker Cover: "The Finish Line."
↑ Fiction-themed New Yorker cover.
Art Direction: Françoise Mouly
The New Yorker Cover: "Commencement"
↑ Graduation-themed New Yorker cover.
Thank you Michael Canva for the close and flattering analysis of this piece in the Washington Post.
Art Direction: Françoise Mouly
The New Yorker Cover: "Closing Set"
Belief in Alien Life VS Faith in Evolution
↑ Newsweek's weekly "two numbers" column alleges "Americans are nearly as likely to believe in intelligent aliens as they are in evolution."
Art Direction: Jessica Fitzgerald
Bloomberg: 50 Most Influential
↑ Bloomberg asked me draw the portraits for this year's 50 Most Influential list.
↑ All 50 portraits as seen in the print edition of Bloomberg Markets Magazine.
↑ John Taylor
↑ Jeff Besos
↑ Janet Yellen
↑ Reid Hoffman
↑ Jorge Paolo Lemann
↑ Warren Buffet
↑ The double gatefold chart in the print magazine seems to function better as an online presentation.
Art Direction: Lou Vega
"Spotlight" film review: The New Yorker
↑ The New Yorker's Review of the film, Spotlight.
↑ Rachel McAdams, Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, and Brian d’Arcy James play Boston Globe reporters in Tom McCarthy’s film.
Art Direction: Chris Curry.
Symphony For the City Of The Dead
↑ Wraparound book jacket illustration. Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson.
↑ Unused Sketches.
Art Direction: Matt Roeser
Mission Impossible
↑ The New Yorker's Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation film review.
↑ Unused Sketches.
Art direction: Chris Curry.
Where She Got The Gun
↑ The New York Times Sunday Book Review "Summer Fiction" edition's cover story: a review of Ottessa Moshfegh's Eileen.
↑ Unused Sketch. Snowy New England features prominently in novel. After my first set of sketches was received, I was informed that this was the Summer Fiction edition and asked to remove the snow and add the headline.
Art Direction: Joele Cuyler
How Indie Rock Changed the World
↑ The D.I.Y. ethos of indie rock gave rise to the start-up culture of the tech industry according to The Atlantic Monthly.
↑ Zines, mixtapes, nerds.
Art Direction: Elisa Glass
ASME "Best Cover" Award Finalist.
↑ The American Society of Magazine Editors named my nov 2014 cover of the MIT Technology Review a finalist in Readers’ Choice Award Business and Technology category. Thanks ASME, and thanks to Art Director Nick Vokey who worked super closely with me on this!
NY Times: Summer Movies
↑ Aging celebrities Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, and Helen Mirren explode onto the cover of the New York Times Summer Movie section.
↑ "This summer's action heros are several shades of gray."
Art direction: Shannon Robertson
Nike: Basketbaltar
↑ Nike's "Basketbaltar" ad campaign.
↑ Basketbaltar is a mechanical fortuneteller who offers predictions for the 2015 NBA playoffs via social media (Twitter/Facebook).
↑ Modular graphics are customized with up-to-the-minute game highlights of Nike-sponsored athletes.↓
↑ A "zodiac" of sixteen reimagined team logos.
↑ Milwaukee Bucks "zodiac."
↑ Atlanta Hawks "zodiac."
↑ Early concept sketch. Originally, Nike planned to build real-life fortuneteller machines to plant in cities across the U.S. Like the "Zoltar" machines in the movie "Big," Basketbaltar would reward users with a printed fortune ticket. Unfortunately, time restraints forced Nike to scrap the 3-D component of the campaign.
↑ Two of the many decorative graphics I produced for the campaign.
New predictions and graphics will continue to be appear throughout the NBA Finals primarily via Twitter.
Art direction/Graphic design: Jacob Weinstein, Wieden + Kennedy.
New Yorker: "Fun Home," "Snowpiercer"
↑ A reimagined scene from the broadway musical, "Fun Home" based on Alison Bechdel's graphic novel of the same name.
↑ In print.
↑ An illustration which accompanied the New Yorker's review of "Snowpiercer" last summer.
Thanks to Art Director Chris Curry for thinking of me for such varied assignments!
Number 6
↑ "The number 6" was the only prompt for this cover of the French magazine Kiblind. I imagined a bronze sculpture of six creatures in a mortal struggle.
↑ The image was printed as a t-shirt (available here), and released at an accompanying gallery show in Paris.
↑ Rough sketch of a concept that I scrapped early on.
