↑ 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
↑ 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
↑ 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!
↑ 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'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.
↑ 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!
↑ "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.
↑ Last year, Report on Business Magazine (the Globe and Mail) commissioned a series of illustrations featuring this savvy investor fox. My design takes a cue from Richard Scarry.
↑ "Momentum investing." Each vignette illustrates a different investment strategy.
↑ "Dividend investing."
↑ "Growth investing."
↑ "Value investing."
↑ "Technical analysis."
↑ Unused sketches. ↓
Art Direction: Emily Vezer.
↑ Comic-illustration to accompany a short essay about a retired tennis champion with Alzheimer's.
Art Direction: Nathan Huang
↑ 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.
↑ When Kareem Granton returned home safe after his 5-day disappearance, New York Magazine detailed his adventure in a two page comic-strip.
↑ The story as it appeared in the magazine last spring. ↓
Art Direction: Sheth Karishma
↑ Cover Mock-up of the unpublished December 2014 issue of the New Republic.
I was thrilled to receive this commission from the New Republic. After a long week tweaking the likenesses, I pulled an all-nighter to make my deadline. Just as I was emailing the file, I heard this on NPR: "Whatever you do this holiday season, you will not spend your down time flipping through the December issue of The New Republic. That issue of the magazine was canceled after many key staff members resigned late last week..." Dumfounded, I uploaded the file anyway, hit "send," and finally went to sleep.
I'm bummed this will never see print, but having the opportunity was an honor.
↑ After discovering the Bush family dogs had passed away, I opted to feature the lesser-known Bush family cats.
Art Direction: Erick Fletes
↑ Entertainment Weekly heralds the podcast Serial as the return of must-listen radio.
↑ Benday dots: they never look right on a screen, but they are just so satisfying in print.
↑ Sketches.
Art direction: Aaron Morales, Tim Leong
↑ MIT Technology Review cover article on technology and inequality.
↑ "R>G" was a suggestion from the editor. It refers to Thomas Piketty's assertion that R (the return on capital) is historically greater than G (the economic growth rate).
↑ Unused concepts.
Art Direction: Nick Vokey
↑ Each segment of the illustration lines up with a corresponding column of text below it. ↓
Art Direction: Michael Myers
↑ 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
↑ Infographic for the Halloween-themed October issue of Men's Health.
↑ Unused sketch with dummy text.
Art Direction: Ellie Clayman
↑ 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.
I was recently honored to be the subject of a memory-themed project by the fragrance company Apoteker Tepe. After I described a scent linked to a strong personal memory, the founder and perfumer, Holladay Saltz, crafted a fragrance to recall that memory.
I described the scent of the of the stream banks in the Hawaiian rainforest. Holladay nailed their essence and crafted it into a wearable fragrance. I am thrilled to have the sole bottle. Thanks Holladay!
Check out the whole story (and Apotoker Tepe's production line) here.
↑ East Maui, the backdrop for many of the most vivid memories of my teen years.
↑ A brief interview and documentary clip of my process.
The Hollywood Reporter recently hired me for a project a little out of my normal range: For a Comic-Con themed issue, I drew photographed celebrities into their favorite films.
↑The "Titans of Comic Con" project ultimately became a multi-page photo spread.
↑The magazine was kind enough to include a sidebar interview about my process.
Art Direction: Shanti Marlar, Christine Park