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National Public Radio
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August 9, 2012
I was asked by National Public Radio to create an image for their 2013 Calendar, a visual interpretation of NPR. Sale of the calendars goes to support public radio. My final art is above, acrylic on paper. Some of the sketches and details are below:
Sketches
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Final calendar layout
Calendar cover by Jessica Hische
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Guns in America - NY Times
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Series for ESPN column
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iPad cover
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Back to the Start
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Gold Medal from S.I.
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CHIKE and the River
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30 Covers in 30 Days
Krampus for BLAB!
American Illustration 30
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Rolling Stone at S.I.
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Japan for The New York Times
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Cover for The New Republic
ESPN Fiction Issue
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Gaddafi for Newsweek
In the Galleries
Cute Puppies
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Egypt, for The New York Times
EGYPT sketchbook
China Reform Covers
Op-Ed on Arizona shootings
Lecture at SI on 1/19
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Undercover Boss
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Prey
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Chinese Democracy
Campaign for Earth Hour
BLAB! show at S.I.
Series for Newsweek magazine
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Show/Lecture in Philadelphia
Work in S.I. Advertising Show
CMYK magazine article
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Snowboard Auction
Cover for Arts & Leisure
Today's Op-Ed
Lecture at Art Center
S.I. Editorial & Book Show
Solo Show in Los Angeles
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Week in Review cover
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A Man of the People
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Cover for The Deal
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Up and Down Decade
Feliz Natal!
Anthills of the Savannah
Communication Arts Interview
No Longer at Ease
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Rock Hall of Fame Concerts
Series for Essence Magazine
Simpler Times
Daily Drop Cap
Cubed
American Illustration 28
October
for The Atlantic Monthly
Gallery Group Shows
Vancouver Olympics mascots
Recent Portraits
Newsweek Cover
Shut 'em Down
NYC kids' book event
Vancouver Opera trip
September
Cubacartel
Geoffrey Grahn, RIP
Lunatic fringe
Little Moments
Controlled Chaos...
Photographs
Princeton Book Festival
Newsweek Cover
Marvel goes to Disney World
August
Chip Kidd Interview
Girls at War
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
July
Hopes and Impediments
Obsessions show at NY Times
Show at Giant Robot
Interviewed by Yuko!
Work Selected by CA & 3x3
Today's Op-Ed on Honduras
Portraits for VH1
June
Emory Douglas: Black Panther
Madoff for WSJ
My First Portfolio
From the Rooftops of Iran
Norma for The Vancouver Opera
Iran Op-Ed and Persepolis
The Starfish Project
Iran Elections
The Ark Project
Sotomayor Triplets
School Visit
The Marriage of Figaro
Obama in Cairo
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May
A video about my Sergio books
SERGIO Saves the Game!
Extremism for TIME Magazine
Francis Bacon at the Met
Jennifer
'Nixon in China' Poster
For The New Yorker
April
Madame Butterfly Poster
March
Marcel Dzama music video
Dellas Graphics Frog
Posters for a series of plays by Tony Kushner
Carbon con Leche
Today's Op-Ed on the I.R.A.
A very early painting
Nukular
February
Work Selected for Society of Illustrators Advertising Exhibition
Nice surprise in the mail
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Poster for "Heaven on Earth", a new film by Deepa Mehta
Cover for The Washington Post Book World
Cover for The New Republic Magazine
Series for Runner's World Magazine
Work selected for Society of Illustrators Book and Editorial Exhibition
Todays Op-Ed: Obama and Iran's nuclear aspirations
Phil Selway of Radiohead for 'Cut to the Drummer' show
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James Jean show at Jonathan Levine gallery
The Middle East
2008 Notable Op-Ed Art
• 2008
December
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Picture Mechanics wrapping paper
Happy Holidays from Sergio, international superstar!
New one for Soojin at Plansponsor
Paul Pierce "The Truth"
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Warner Bros./Reprise Records GUIDE Cover
For the NY Times Book Review
Silver Medals from The Society of Illustrators
Work selected for American Illustration Annual
Cover for NOW
Dr. Atomic, and other recent work for The New Yorker
Furry Lewis
Go Tell Mama
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George Lois interview
Power of a photograph
Colin Powell endorsement of Barack Obama
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I'm voting for... "THAT ONE"
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David Foster Wallace
SERGIO weighs in on the economy
Beer label for Deschutes Brewery
Toronto Gallery Show
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SERGIO in The Washington Post!
The economy for Businessweek Magazine
ENOUGH!
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Show at Lonsdale Gallery in Toronto, Opening this Saturday, August 16th, 1-4pm
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Author Appearance Schedule for "Sergio Makes a Splash!"
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Mugabe Op-Ed
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Society of Illustrators Advertising and Institutional Annual Exhibition
Poker card for SND Vegas convention
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A Speech in Philadelphia
Saul Bass Title Sequences
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In Solidarity with Dr. Flaherty
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Society of Illustrators Book and Editorial Exhibition
80 Degrees in February
'The Odd Couple', poster for Soulpepper Theater
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Paula Scher
Society of Illustrators Sequential Exhibition
A Show in Spain
Stefan Sagmeister
'Salt-Water Moon' poster for Soulpepper Theater
Identity design and website launch for 'Celia the Queen' film
Goodbye TIME
An Ad for MTV
It's Oprah Time!
F.U.B.A.R.
Recommended shows, etc.
Notable Op-Ed Art of the Year
Ray Barretto for The New Yorker
• 2007
December
The Housewife
Recent work for The New Yorker
November
2007 Drawger Annual
October
Steve Heller Portraits
Drawing with a Drill
Kids' books, politicians, and go-go girls, just another night in the city
The Waitress
Painting process
'Downright' show pics
Pictures for the People!
I'm on Broadway!!!
September
Radiohead: Record companies, who needs them?
Work in a show in Brooklyn
Book Review art
Auction to benefit Behind the Book
AIGA Books Show
The School Teacher
Rodriguez VS. Staake
N.Y.C.
Paintings
Friday Night Music Video
August
Art for a Book Review
T-Shirt Proposal of the Day?
The Tour Guide
Mitt Romney
Perils of the job....
Op-Ed
D.J. Rekha
Some Figure Drawings
July
yee-haw.
The Interior Designer
Depression in the workplace
Drawger Pool Party!
Peace
And Sometimes they run it BIG....
A film and a musical
June
Action!
Manu Chao concert - Brooklyn
behindthebook.org
The Museum Guard
Woman with braid
Music
Book Release Salsa Party!
May
Memorial Day Parade
Me and my dad
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Drawing of a film
The Bronx Zoo
Carlos Salinas
TIME 100 The Sequel
Thomas Hardy
The Namesake
April
At The Crossroads
Bob and Me
The Sopranos
Work picked for Communication Arts Annual
Red, Black, and White
Hello!
New York Times Book Review Cover
March
Iraq, Four Years Later
More Bunnies!
I draw cute bunny rabbits too!
Chinese Democracy
My drawing is moving!
February
Enter the American Illustration Pageant
Me and the Copacabana Girls
dickblick.com
My ICONIC Podcast Interview
Illustrating a review of a complex novel
Send in a Drawger Logo
Style 5 Animation Studio is here!
January
Ralph Nader
Experiments
The Financial Advisor
The Drawger Annual is Here
Martin Luther King
The Decider
Awe, baby Illoz is a week old!
China Girls
The Holmes Brothers
Second Thoughts....
UFO spotted over Asheville, North Carolina
illoz.com
• 2006
December
The Execution of Saddam Hussein
Happy Holi-Daze
The New Dictator on the Block
Juvenile Detention Series
A visit to the Osteopath
Drawing at a House Concert
Robert Altman
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised....
November
Yep, I like red.
Kiki Smith at the Whitney Museum
SUNSHINE STATE
After the Revolution
It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it....
Cat Stevens / Yusuf Islam
Some tulips...
The Lifestyle Mag Hits the Town!
ELECTION DAY!!!
All Night Long!
Military Intelligence?
Celia the Queen - A film project
AFRICA
The Border
Howard Dean
A Poster for a Broadway Musical
October
BOO ?
Speaking of PLAYBOY
A Broadway poster
Yo! Get this album already!
Orchestra Baobab from Senegal
My HOT date with Zina
Children's Book Illustration, The Musical!!!
One week of painting on a wall
Merce Cunningham Portrait
Lucy, Somesing Estrange is Going On!!!
A Chimp and a Man having coffee at a diner by Jack Unruh
When I was 15 years old!
I love this New Yorker cartoon
I'm Nominated for an OZZIE!!!
September
Something from MY Cigar Box
My Coffee Pot prototype
MANU CHAO!!!
Lovely Flowers by Odilon Redon
Am I Surrounded by Robert Crumbs???
Did Someone Mention TEXTURES???
Do You Wanna Get Happy?
What is the Speakeasy?
1971, What a wild and TRIPPY year...
The Women of Drawger
HELLO, LADIES OF ILLUSTRATION MUNDO....
Another Lovely, Warm and Inviting Workspace!!!
Speaking of WILCO
Why Not?
RWANDA: PART II
WILCO poster -The most sketches I've ever done...
Losing My Darwin
Guitar Geeks, Dig In!!!
John Lee Hooker's Brother
John Lee Hooker, and my black soul brothers
A drawing
For my great friend Leo—The Mag is Back!
9/11
A Recent Book Jacket
A Pink Panda Playing a Harp Floating in White Snow
9/11 Commemoration Proposal
Labor Day
Francesco Clemente and the "fine art" of "Appropriation"
GARDEN STATE
New Orleans
Drawger Fall Campaign!
August
O.G. Drawg Sign
RWANDA
My Grandmother
Wedding Countdown
What a Wonderful Birthday!
Nudity, Then and Now
The gift that keeps on giving
Hot off the Presses
QUICK POLL: Fidel Castro Watch
War Profiteering
Toons & War
EXCLUSIVE: Drawger.com publishes the BACK of my Cuba drawings
BREAKING NEWS!!
Drawing While Sleeping
Time.com publishes my visual essay of Cuba
A Beautiful, and Revolutionary Baby
Special Report
My Studio
CASTRO IS DEAD!
Yo! drawGEAR is in!
Place your orders!
July
Hipsterism deconstructed
Big Pimpin'
Matt Mahurin's new film
I, bloghead
Illustration | portraits (27)
Illustration | conceptual (25)
Illustration | culture (35)
Travel & Sketchbooks (8)
Work in Context (32)
Photography (40)
OP-ED (8)
Design Projects (27)
GARDEN STATE (70)
SUNSHINE STATE (61)
Sketches and Thumbnails (22)
Interviews:
Altpick Interview
ICONIC Podcast Interview
Interview by Yuko Shimizu
Other Portfolios:
Altpick Portfolio
A Vision of Cuba, an illustrated essay
Portfolio at illoz.com
Other Stuff
My Studio
Links to Articles
Article about David Hockney's new paintings
Roberta Smith on the current state of museum shows
NY Times article on Jonathan LeVine gallery
Rodriguez is teaching at TutorMill, an online mentoring site for students of illustration!
