Hello hello! I’ve updated my portfolio today for the first time since late last year, adding recent editorial and design pieces done in/around Red Light Properties (don’t ask me how). There are some peaches in there, like this piece from New York Magazine that hit the stands as I drove down to Florida from Brooklyn:
I love love love being busy busy busy with illustration work & loads of new comics, but unfortunately it’s the bloggity-blog-blog that’s first to fall by the wayside. When I have so many plates a-spinning, sometimes keeping track of me via Twitter can be the best and easiest thing. I promise I’ll see you lovelies here again tomorrow with a new installment of RLP.
Late last fall, I was approached by the smart kids behind the SXSW Interactive Festival to do a design for this year’s Interactive conference. I’ve had my mind blown there for the last two years (hopefully blown a few myself…, erm), so how could I say no, really?
Wanting to give them something special that connected to my own very warm feelings about my SXSWI experiences, I got my transhuman freak on in the design, which I am interviewed about below. Created shortly before leaving Brooklyn and coming to São Paulo, I can’t help but smile at those concentric circles in the design that represent “the signal”… and clearly revealing my crazy anticipation of moving to Brazil.
Additionally cool note is that the interview is conducted by my (no joke) friend-since-age-12 pal Noah Kuttler (now of IBM), where he interviews me about the design, Red Light Properties, and some other things:
And for you, my Special Receivers, here’s a larger image of the final bag design:
As gooey as them brains are, I really like the wifi-symbols over their third eyes.
So, the tote bags are going to be given out to a minimum of 100,000 festival attendees over the course of a few days; I can’t attend this year as I’m cranking out these Red Light Properties pages every week, but I’d love to see a photo of a sea of SXSWers schlepping their schwag with my design, wink wink…
Last week I did an illustration for New York Magazine about the more obscure sports in the Olympics; their art director asked me to reference a sport I couldn’t get a name for, something that looked like it was played on your knees with a Swiffer and a car-wax-buffer. The article speaks to the branded endorsements being more valuable than the nationalism, so I’m rather into the blank flags ringing the earth and “SPONSOR” on his jersey:
I did the Intelligencer lead illustration for this week’s New York magazine, about Obama’s relationship with independent voters and what he can do to sway them:
I did an Intelligencer piece for New York Magazine today on Obama’s conflict with NY Governor Paterson. Click the image to see my Simpsonsesque initial sketch and then the final piece:
The comic I’ve written/drawn for TIME magazine that accompanies this article on Neanderthals being hunted by Cro-Magnon man appears in this week’s issue with “Paging Dr. Obama” on the cover. Here’s an unlettered panel; unfortunately the piece is not online, but you can find it just about any local newsstand:
New York magazine’s Intelligencer article “Bad for the Jews?” features an illustration by me this week; you can read the whole piece here:
I’ve illustrated an Intelligencer piece in this week’s New York Magazine that compares the over-diagnosis of “narcissism” today versus the potency of a good old-fashioned insult:
Also: it made me all 08-nostalgic to draw a horrific Sarah Palin again for an evening… *sniff*.
This week I did a illustration for NY Magazine accompanying the Intelligencer piece about the rudderless circus of New York State’s government; I’m particularly found of the skronky scrollpen flourishes going on here, reflecting the amount of Ornette Coleman here in the studio this past week. You can read the whole piece here:
I drew a portrait of the newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor for the Intelligencer section of this week’s New York Magazine; unfortunately the drawing was trimmed for size in the print magazine, but it accompanies the article in full bloom on the web. Click below to embiggify:
