Campus Technology: Digital Dorm Room

Here’s a new full page illustration for Campus Technology Magazine. One of my favorite things to do in a drawing is fill out a space with random clutter. At some point I had to scale back a little to keep the focus on the guy getting sucked into his computer, but I might have to stretch my legs with a couple of %100 bric-à-brac drawings on the side. Also, I think this is the first time I have ever drawn venetian blinds! So now I can check that off the list. Thanks to Scott Rovin for the assignment!

Billboard Magazine: The Future of Radio

I got the chance to do my first assignment for Billboard last week. I have been experimenting with more liberal use of photoshops myriad gradients and coloring tools and this felt like a good opportunity to step up my texture/atmosphere game. Thanks to Sandie Burke for the assignment!

NY Times: Young and Jobless

I have a new illustration for David Leonhardt’s column in today’s NY Times. (Check out the article here.) I was racing the clock with this one! I started noodling with the figures and when I looked up it was 15 minutes from send time. I was coloring with the adrenaline level of a 1000 mountain dews and ended up trying some new coloring strategies. Happily, I actually prefer the way it turned out to what I had originally had in my head.  Thanks to Aviva Michaelov for the assignment! 

The Higher Education Journal: Education and the Budget Cliff

I have been coming back to these landscapes a lot recently!  I like to imagine that they are all connected through a series of hiking trails.This was for a story on the way administrators in public schools can deal with drastic budget cuts. Thanks to Scott Rovin for the assignment!

Diablo Magazine: Think Tank

These illustrations were for a series of profiles on Bay Area based innovators. Some of the highlights: A scientist cultivating strains of bacteria that can turn waste plastic into useful chemical compounds; An app that alerts users to volunteer opportunities in their community; A sustainable food empire scaling up to reinvent mainstream food production. Check out the full article here: (link). Thanks to Roger Gurbani for the great assignment!

InsideCouncel: Litigation Column

Since that last GIF I have been seeing motion opportunities everywhere and this one would have been a natural! This is an illustration for InsideCouncel’s monthly “Litigation” column fo a story on ways legal teams are tightening their belts budget-wise. Thanks to Elizabeth Novack for the assignment!

I’ve been working on some illustrations that I can’t post yet, so I thought I would share this gif from yester-year; a composite portrait of the dozen or so bearded bike messenger types that I always see around my neighborhood. Here’s to you, dudes!

NY Times: Education Standards

I got the chance to test my GIF chops for this letters piece in today’s NY Times. This is my first animated assignment and I had a lot of fun with it! Simple as it is I ran into a lot of dead-ends along the way, but I’ll have a few new tricks under my sleeve the next time I venture into gif-craft. You can check out the article here. A big thanks to AD Alexandra Zsigmond for the great assigment! 

NY Times: Getting Kids into Top Colleges

A new illustration from this weekend’s Sunday Review. You can read the article here, and I posted some process shots on behance and you if you want to check them out: (link.)  A big thanks to Aviva Michaelov for the assignment!

NY Times: Education Gap

I have been daydreaming about a backpacking trip to the west coast, and I was able to channel some of that into this illustration for the NY TImes last week. This was the section cover for a special on Continuing Education, for a story about the obstacles some students face when trying to pay for non-accredited universities and trade schools. I had a lot of fun thinking about this little environment. I might have to spend some more time there poking around. Thanks to Rodrigo Honeywell for the great assignment!

The Pitch: The Blues Society

I got the chance to illustrate the cover of the Kansas City’s alt-weekly “The Pitch.” I grew up pouring over my own town’s alt-weekly (shout out to you Coast Weekly) and it is a special thrill to think that this thing is going to be scattered across cafe tables for the next month or so. A big thanks to Ashford Stamper for the great assignment!