posted: April 18, 2012

Catching up on some recent work. Here's a full page on the "World's Greenest Banks" for Bloomberg Markets, Lou Vega AD

For the New Republic's Inequality Issue. Story was actually about a rich trust fund girl and a poor boy and their rocky domestic relationship. Joe Heroun AD.

Now that the "Fair-Trade" label has value, corporations are trying use the label for profit, but not exactly the practice....
For Tuft's University. Margot Grisar AD.

Spread for Corporate Knight in Canada. Art directed by the brilliant illustrator Pete Ryan.

Another spread for Bloomberg Markets. I'd been trying to use this pie idea for a year and it finally found an article that fit.

"Rehabilitation" for the social cooperative Arcobaleno in Torino, Italy. Andrea Bozzo AD. If you've never seen his design work, check it out, he uses a ton of illustration. www.andreabozzo.it

Also for the New Republic, article was the "Economics of American Industry".
And I was happy to find out last week it got selected for AI31, which surprized me because of the dry subject matter.

And lastly a much wetter topic. Big fish populations in the Indian Ocean are rebounding due to Somali pirates, scaring off fishing fleets. I think I got drool on my keyboard just listening to the art director talking about it...
Full page for California magazine, Michiko Toki AD

posted: March 8, 2012

Any drawger readers out near Kansas City? I'll be giving a lecture on monday at the University of Kansas this monday evening (March 12th) and would love to meet you. The lecture takes place at 6pm at 110 Budig at KU in Lawerence. I hope to show alot of work and some new never seen work as well. Thanks to Barry Fitzgerald for the invite.

posted: January 26, 2012

For a weighty Bloomberg Markets story about multinational criminal gangs using intimidation and violence to get poor eastern europeans to sell their kidneys.

What was crazy was some of the complicit doctors in the story, so I included them in the roughs.

Gangsters, a former Ukrainian kick boxer in this case, search for people willing to sell a kidney for $10,000 or less.
They sell the organs for 15 to 20 times what they pay, profiting from misery of the gravely ill and poor.

The most heartbreaking part is when they only pay the poor people half what they promised and often their health is wrecked.

posted: December 20, 2011

For today's NY Times Op Ed and first job with Matt Dorfman.

The article was mostly about China wanting Korea to stay divided, so I had to explore that in the roughs. But I was really hoping I could get away with a conceptual portrait.

Luckily Matt agreed AND was willing to go to bat for the idea.
And thankfully gave me an extra hour to paint it.