↑ 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.
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
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!
Murder and the City
↑ Cover of the New York Times Book review feature a scene from Richard Price's novel, "the Whites."
↑ The cover layout.
↑ Unused sketches. ↓
↑ The title, The Whites "alludes to the cases that haunt detectives through careers and post-careers. The white whales. The ones that got away."
Art Direction: Nicholas Blechman.
Men's Health: Exercise Fuel
↑ Each segment of the illustration lines up with a corresponding column of text below it. ↓
Art Direction: Michael Myers
Grantland's Detroit Book Jacket
↑ Wraparound book jacket design with hand lettering.
↑ The book features stories about Detroit legends (from left to right) Barry Sanders, Martin Lawrence, Elmore Leonard, Isaiah Thomas, Eminem, Steve Yzerman, Hulk Hogan, And Andre the Giant.
↑ Unused sketch.
↑ Unused sketch.
Art Direction: Juliet Litman
GQ: "Dating's Not That Hard... Really!"
↑ Feature illustration for GQ Germany.
Art Director Jana Meier-Roberts and I collaborated on a set of images rethinking a few famously complicated relationships in movies.
↑ Rejected sketch.
Wired Magazine: HBO's "The Leftovers"
↑ HBO's new series, "The Leftovers." Type designed by the Wired staff. Special shout out to my friend, actress Natalie Gold (far left) who featured prominently in the series trailer.
↑ Wired article layout.
Art Direction:Victor Krummenacher, Allie Fisher
ESPN Magazine: Crazy Fans are sometimes right.
Stephen Hawking Cover
↑ Art Director Paloma Lorenzo recently commissioned this portrait of Stephen Hawking for the cover the cover of El País Semanal, the Spanish newspaper's weekend magazine supplement.
↑ The image was later purchased by La Reppublica for the Italian translation of Jose Edelstein's article.
New York Times Portraits
↑ Philip Roth and Norman Mailer for the New York Times Sunday Book Review. ↓
↑ Unused sketch with an early headline which was ultimately scrapped.
↑ Columnists for the New York Times Sunday Book Review's new weekly series, "Bookends."↓
Art Direction: Nicholas Blechman
Update on 2013-12-29 03:52 by webmaster
New York Times Book Review Diptychs
↑ Henry David Thoreau and his small cabin at Walden Pond.
↑ Two separate articles reviewing books on climate change. Art Director Nicholas Blechman proposed two illustrations that combine to suggest a single narrative.
↑ Again, neighboring articles share a diptych illustration.
Officially Released
Today is the release date for the Shark King. I couldn't be happier with the way the printing and production turned out. Reviews have started rolling in, including a starred review from Booklist.
New Yorker "Spots"
Regular readers of the New Yorker will be familiar with the weekly "spots:" a series of small, usually black and white illustrations scattered throughout the text of the entire issue. This has always been one of my favorite features of the magazine, so I was honored to when editor Françoise Mouly asked me to take a stab at it. She suggested the theme of hoodies in memory of Trayvon Martin.
AARP Magazine
Feature illustrations from the last two issues.
Art Direction: Todd Albertson, Gina Saunders, Lesley Palmer.