Here’s a fun quick turnaround illustration about the virtues of dating in New York City.

Here’s a new piece for Variety about Netflix expanding into overseas markets. Thanks to Art Director Chris Mihal for the assignment.

(Moderator John Donvan warming up on stage)

A couple of weeks ago I had the great pleasure of attending an Intelligence Squared US event with my mother, which was special for so many reasons. You may or may not be aware that I created illustrations for their current season of debates.

While most of the events are held in New York, this one in particular was being held in Los Angeles, California the very weekend that I was helping my mom move from Phoenix, Arizona to Santa Rosa, California. AND it also just happened to be the debate that I created a Wizard of Oz themed image for, which was my mom’s favorite movie growing up. So we of course jumped at the opportunity to attend.

(Yours truly with some of the work I’ve created for Intelligence Squared US)

(With Clea Conner Chang, Director of Marketing and Production)

(With Moderator John Donvan)

It was so great to see my work up on the main stage and also meet some of the people I’ve been working with for several months.

Art Director Stephanie Glaros of Experience Life (and formerly Utne Reader) contacted me to illustrate an article claiming that lost weight leads to a sharper brain. I was grateful to finally get a chance to work with Stephanie, and we agreed that the brain shaped weight scale was a perfect solution.

I had a lot of fun with this latest piece for another Intelligence Squared US debate entitled “Spy on Me, I’d Rather Be Safe”.

Here’s a synopsis of the debate:

“The NSA collects data on billions of phone calls and internet communications per day. Are these surveillance programs legal? Do they keep us safe? If not for the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, most Americans would be unaware of the vast amounts of information their government is secretly collecting, all in the name of national security. But whether you believe leakers are heroes or traitors, an important public conversation has finally begun, and we should ask ourselves: What tradeoffs are we willing to make between security and privacy?

As Benjamin Franklin might have asked, “Are we giving up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety, and thus deserving of neither?”

* On a related note, I’m very excited to be able to attend one of the debates that I created illustrations for next week in Los Angeles, so watch for updates on that.

Illustration for the Business section of the LA Times about Twitter going public with its IPO filings.

Recently I posted here about my illustrations for the current season of Intelligence Squared US debates, which air on PBS and OPB. The illustrations are being used on their web site, as well as in posters, programs, and even onstage, as shown in the screenshot above. I really enjoyed working on this series, and we’re already getting geared up for the next half of the season.

This week they were kind enough to publish a brief Q&A about my creative process for this series of images, which you can read here if you’re interested.

Welcome back! Today I wanted to share this latest illustration for Architectural Lighting Magazine for an article about the risks that businesses face when engaging in social media. I had a lot of fun with the banana peel metaphor for this one. Probably a little too much.

And here’s another one for Scouting magazine about the Boy Scout Association’s efforts to call alumni scouts back to the organization for volunteer work. Thanks for looking!

I am so excited to finally share this collection of illustrations I created for the new season of Intelligence Squared, a debate show that airs on PBS and NPR. It was such a thrill to work with the Director of Marketing and Production Clea Conner Chang on this because I respect what they’re doing over there and enjoyed developing smart concepts based on each topic. I’ll be creating a blog post for them about the development of this project, and I’ll be sure to share that here as well.

The image above was for the topic Don’t Eat Anything with a Face, and here are the rest:

The U.S. Drone Program is Fatally Flawed

Break Up the Big Banks

For a Better Future, Live in a Red State

Let Anyone Take a Job Anywhere

The Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Has Outlived Its Usefulness

I love cover illustration projects, and it has actually been a few months since I’ve done one. This was for a Dallas Observer article about a veteran soldier who turns to organic farming. Such a fun overlap of visuals to choose from for this one. Thanks to Tracie Louck for the collaboration. You can check out the story here.

This year I’m very excited to be working on a series of illustrations for Intelligence Squared, a debate show that airs in both audio and video formats on PBS and NPR. I was contacted to create imagery to accompany each topic this season, the first of which you can see here. This will be for an upcoming debate about the difficult role of the United States in the Syrian civil war.

I was truly honored to get to work with Art Director Len Small of Nautilus, a great science publication that makes amazing use of talented illustrators. This piece was for an article about “orphan planets”, which don’t seem to orbit around anything, but instead wander on their own. You can read the story here.