posted: January 21, 2010

This is a poster that I recently completed for Public Works, a sort of umbrella organization encompassing just about every discipline necessary to keep our world humming along. I got the call from Jon Dilley, the creative director, super easy to work with, just a few important revisions and I was on my way. I was given a list in the beginning, a long list, of what needed to be included, things like snow removal, tree trimming, sewage treatment, etc. Nobody could be left out. A great assignment for me as I have always had this interest and fascination with what we rely on in a civilized world, and how very fragile it all is. For example, the water mains were bursting in Baltimore just about every day during the recent deep freeze and we have blackouts quite regularly as we are no doubt using some outdated relay station or some such. The idea that my son charges his i-pod with power from miles away and powered by coal, a very old and dirty technology, seems so very odd. Coal fired i-pod. Last night I was watching a documentary on the infrastrusture of NYC, something I could just sit and think about forever, it really is hard to comprehend what lies beneath the streets there.




Jon does this poster every year and sent me a few samples of past editions, among which was Doug Fraser, a dynamite piece, a tough act to follow, hope he doesn't mind me sharing. There were other great examples including Gordon Studer.



BTW-The printing job was phenomenal, opened the package and it just blew me away.

posted: January 6, 2010

I feel like I need to post something as it's been a while and looking at everything I've done in the last month of the year this is pretty much what I'm most happy with, and of course it was done for Soojin. Our favorite art director had some time ago given me clearance to post before publish so Zimm don't black list me. If I have one goal for 2010 it's to try and do good work within the parameters of taking (or getting) enough work to make a living. There are just some publications where it's impossible to do something different, risky, engaging, or otherwise arresting, and who can turn down 2K + budgets? Not me. So, I steel myself for the many battles that loom.


The direction for this piece was "grab the bull by the horns" something like that. The bull is so over used in these business/Wall St. stories soI just wanted to do something visually interesting, no strong concept, and of course Soojin picked the version that I wanted to complete.

posted: December 23, 2009

Okay, I see a trend here. I searched my "morgue" for some holiday images and this is what popped up. I think it was the WSJ a year or two ago. I sincerely wish everybody here at Drawger a very Merry Christmas and also to those thousands who we know are looking in but keeping quiet. This wish is for you, you mysterious hordes. Let's all tear it up in 2010 shall we?


The holidays are hard and we need to drink! So cheers Drawgerville.

posted: November 24, 2009

I did this piece last week for Leanne at the Op-Ed. The story was a good one for imagery though kind of tough to do without being offensive. Basically looks at how the media and the left were very hesitant to call the killer in the Ft. Hood shootings a terrorist, and how the rights support of the "war on terror" is really just creating such anger amongst Muslims here and abroad that events like the Ft. Hood shooting are possibly a result. There are other points like no matter how much you fight the extremist there are more being created by the violence perpetrated on Muslims, a vicious cycle. Some of the images convey the idea that any muslim is a potential terrorist, not my belief but a view brought up in the article.

I just finished the John Krakauer book on the killing of Pat Tillman. A very tragic sad tale, this guy was mowed down by his fellow squad members in the army rangers, had his head blown off, pretty much. The army covered it up from the start, burned his uniform, destroyed the body armor etc. The poor family. It's worth a read just for the wealth of background on the conflict, how we created the very enemy that we are fighting, how the CIA dumped money into the tribal areas so they could fight the Soviets as our proxy army. Anyway, this influenced my thinking here, it's a no win situation. There are also a few paragraphs at the end of the book, quotes from other writers proposing that the western male, encouraged to be peaceful, go to college, take your Ridalin (sp) are not prepared for the conflict at hand, that perhaps we are not creating enough alpha males. While we raise nice little open minded educated liberal minded young men the terrorists are training their young men to kill, this goes back to my illustration, of more more more, never ending. Krakeur goes on to say that the USA has no shortage of alpha males, indeed the army rangers are bad ass --but is this a fight they can win? I justread that Obama is scheduled to deliver an address next week on his Afghanistan strategy. It's Pakisatan that we really need to worry about.

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