Hello!
Thanks for visiting my site and taking some time to browse around. I create art for a wide array of clients, and I write and illustrate books for children. Here’s some information about what I’ve been up to:
Freelance Illustration
Editorial Illustration:
Interior and cover illustrations for magazines and newspapers including: Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Spin, The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, Travel and Leisure, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Business Week, Fortune, Bloomberg, CFO, Los Angeles Magazine, San Francisco Focus, Boston Magazine, Yale Medicine, and numerous other national and regional publications.
Illustration for Entertainment and the Music Industry:
Artwork and Lettering for CD covers and interior booklets, advertising and promotional materials. Clients include Warner Bros. Records, Capitol Records, Virgin Records, Atlantic Records, Sony Music, The Playboy Jazz Festival, MTV Networks, Nickelodeon
Illustration for Corporate Clients:
Outdoor and Print Advertising, Murals, Packaging, and Promotional Materials. Clients include Coca Cola Co., United Airlines, Adidas, Target Stores, Martha Stewart Inc., American Express, Levi Strauss, Frasier Paper, Crane Paper, Memorex
Character Design:
Development and design of characters and backgrounds for film, broadcast and web animation, as well as print use.
Clients include Laika Studios, Etrade, The TV Guide Channel, and The NCAA
Books for Children – Written and Illustrated
Polkabats and Octopus Slacks – 14 Stories
Houghton Mifflin Co. 1998
Publisher’s Weekly and USA Today Bestseller
Featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition
Winner of the Marion Vannett Ridgeway Award for Poetry
Dutch Sneakers and Fleakeepers – 14 More Stories
Houghton Mifflin Co. 2000
Amazon Children’s Book Top Ten
Parents Choice Recommended Winner
Tippintown – a Guided Tour
Houghton Mifflin Co. 2003
Flamingos on the Roof – Poems and Paintings
Houghton Mifflin Co. 2006
New York Times #1 Best Seller In Children’s Picture Books
Featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition
Winner of the Myra Cohn Livingston Award for Poetry
A 2007 Children’s Book Council Choice
Soup for Breakfast – Poems and Pictures
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co. 2008
Hallowilloween – Nefarious Silliness
Houghton Harcourt Oct. 2010
A Junior Library Guild Selection
Boy Wonders
To be published by Atheneum Books June 2011
Other Books – Illustrated
His Shoes Were Far Too Tight – Poems by Edward Lear
To be published by Chronicle Books March 2011
Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl by Daniel Pinkwater
Houghton Mifflin 2008
Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude by Jonah Winter
published by Atheneum / Simon and Schuster 2009
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Harper Collins 2008
The Yggyssey by Daniel Pinkwater
Houghton Mifflin 2008
The Neddiad by Daniel Pinkwater
Houghton Mifflin 2007
Pop-Up Aesop by John Harris
Museum Publications 2005
Greece! Rome! Monsters! by John Harris
Getty Museum Publications 2001
Lectures and Readings
Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan WI
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
Grafil – Oslo, Norway
Toronto Art Director’s Club – Toronto, Canada
The National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art – Rome, Italy
Dallas Society of Visual Communications – Dallas, TX
American Greetings – Cleveland, OH
Pratt Institute – Brooklyn, NY
Tyler School of Art – Philadelphia, PA
Rhode Island School of Design – Providence, RI
Savannah College of Art and Design – Savannah, GA
American Librarian’s Assoc. Conventions – Washington DC
and New Orleans, LA
Texas Librarians Assoc. Convention – Houston, TX
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, Los Angeles Chapter
Work published in Juried Illustration Annuals
The Society of Illustrators NY and LA
American Illustration Vols. 13-26
Communication Arts Illustration Annual
Print Regional Design Annual
Teaching
1995-1998 Otis College of Art and Design
Los Angeles and Westchester CA
Communication Design Department
2005-2007 Art Center College of Design
Pasadena CA
Illustration Department
2010 to Present
Maine College of Art
Illustration Department
