Stay in Bounds
This was a really interesting and fun project to work on. Stay in Bounds is a campaign to promote sportsmanship in kid’s athletics
created by the NCAA Hall of Champions. The three posters here were adapted for print advertisements as well.
In developing the characters, They client decided to make them child-like, but stylized and fun, rather than more realistic and specific depictions of kids. They did some focus groups and there was a really good response to the combination of the cartoony characters with the very real depictions of scenarios that kids deal with in sports. I think the writing is very well done– sincere, but also funny. The idea of a little mascot that’s a piece of bubblegum, who himself is chewing gum and blowing a bubble was another character that got a great reaction from kids. A nice bit of absurdity in a campaign that deals with serious issues.
The gallery below features the posters, and some of the characters that did, and didn’t, make it into the project.
Hand Lettering
A selection of hand lettering incorporated into illustrations, and commissioned separately.
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Books, Posters, and More
A selection of work that includes book covers, posters, annual reports, and advertising.
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Graphic Style
A selection of work for clients including Levi Strauss, Bloomberg, Newsweek, and Atlantic Records.
For this style I use a more limited palette, and a flatter, less painterly surface.
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Editorial Work
Here’s a selection of some of my favorite Editorial Assignments, from small spots, to feature illustrations.
Clients include Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker, Travel & Leisure, Los Angeles, Natural Health, Fit Pregnancy, Out, Plansponsor, and many others.
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Sketchbook Poem
Even if I had my druthers
I’d still have qualms.
The two go together
like bowls and alms.
Keep Evolving
This is a project that was commissioned by the online brokerage firm iShares. I was one of seven artists
commissioned to interpret the phrase “Keep Evolving”, with the final art blown up to
mural size and installed in Grand Central Station. I chose to go with a train, on account of the
location– an evolved locomotive that runs on sun and wind.
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My painting of The Green Train (detail)
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Installation view
Bond Flow
This is a recent illustration for Plan Sponsor Magazine, art directed by SooJin Buzelli. The article is about the financial complexity of bond flow. The main necessity for the piece was to communicate a complicated system where everything is connected to everything else. 