This was for the cover of the legislative directory produced by the Georgia branch of America Votes. The Progressive Directory provides Georgia General Assembly members with a list of which organizations handle key issues, and who the point of contact is. The directory is a PDF—and not, as implied by the illustration, a collection of […]
For Vassar College’s Vassar Quarterly. The article, “Does Money Buy Happiness?”, examined contributing factors to happiness other than wealth.
The stroke of midnight would have been better, but noon works too.
An illustration for Vassar College on the power of testimony to change a seemingly unmovable system.
He has a thousand fellow travelers, but no real friends. He’s lots of people, but he’s nobody—and that’s the core problem.
I did this for a friend’s magazine. The theme was “Strange Medicine”.
Our jobs have always played an outsized role in our lives, but they are often—for better or worse—a definition of our identities as well. I did this illustration for a friend’s magazine article on the nature of work.
For one of my (brief) blog iterations, I’d share articles I’d read and sometimes do a brief illustration for them. This was for “A Game of Shark and Minnow”, a New York Times feature about the eight Filipino troops stationed on a desolate reef known as Ayungin, facing off against an increasing Chinese military presence.
Self-explanatory.
I did this several years ago, when there was talk that Brexit could break apart the United Kingdom itself. The sign is green, as Exit signs are in European countries.
Illustration for an upcoming project.
Illustration for an upcoming project.
Illustration for an upcoming project.
The growing controversy of whether local police departments should be collaborating with ICE.
No one knows when the next mass shooting in America will be, but we know one thing about it: the shooter probably spent a lot of time online, immersed in a world of hate that most of us find hard to imagine. One person’s online tirade inspires another person’s offline rampage, sharply blurring the line […]
The humble hashtag has come a long way since it was first adopted by the Twitter community as an ad-hoc method of organizing posts. Today’s hashtag is more of a bumper sticker: a means of expressing a viewpoint rather than classifying it.
I did this somewhat wild illustration as a cover illustration for a friend’s magazine. The theme was cooking + storms.
Designed for a Vassar College event on public policy and substance abuse.
As a design exercise a few years ago, I’d share articles on my blog and sometimes do a brief illustration for them. This was for a piece on Twitter’s attempts to improve its increasingly unsavory reputation.
Inspired by an article on Anduril, Palmer Luckey’s Bid to Build A Border Wall, by Wired’s Steven Levy. (For those who might not have read Lord of the Rings, Andúril was the sword of Aragorn.)
Inspired by the remarkable story of Anna Delvey, described by Jessica Pressler in The Cut. I’ve always been fascinated by fakes. I’ve heard it said that imposters steal lives they aren’t entitled to because they’re too lazy to actually be something, but the legendary fakes I’ve heard of—Frank Abagnale, Ferdinand Demara, Stephen Glass—had to work […]
Speech in online communities: sometimes a tool, sometimes a weapon.
Modern rituals. It wouldn’t be the holidays at this point without a ruckus about what Starbucks decides to put on its coffee cups.
Feature creep. Never pretty. When a project starts to remind you of Zeno’s dichotomy paradox, you’re doing it wrong.
Sardines on a plane. Welcome to modern air travel. I spent a fair amount of time on planes when I was a kid. I don’t remember anything resembling what I read about now: the cramped conditions, the plane rage, the cutbacks on amenities. I still have a little tin “United” pilot’s insignia they gave me. […]
My favorite part of this illustration was creating the graphics the way they’re actually created on computer screen: specifying each color as a combination of the red/green/blue subdivisions that comprise a color pixel, rather than simply using regular white or yellow. (Look close—there’s no yellow to be found in this graphic. That’s red+green you’re seeing.)
A few years ago, I was working on launching a small magazine with a few other people. This is from a series of illustrations I did for an article about the AIDS crisis. (Unfortunately the magazine never launched—sometimes passion projects are more time-intensive than one realizes.)
There were a number of issues, but—not unlike the US elections of the previous year—everything, ultimately, seemed to boil down to two distinct camps.
Who’s watching?
This was for an article on depression written by one of my friends.
I drew this after Tim Cook came out in 2014. That was a milestone. Tim Cook was not, however, Apple’s first gay CEO; that would have been Michael Scott, who was not only Apple’s first gay CEO, but its first CEO, period. (Apple’s mostly unknown third co-founder, Ronald Wayne, was also gay.)