They Still Make Annual Reports!

Now that it’s on it’s way from the printer, I can post about a project that I worked on this fall.  In September, I was fortunate to get to do the Harvard Medical School Annual Dean’s Report.  The Report required a conceptual cover and six interior illustrations.  The piece was done through in-house designer, Rachel Eastman.  Over all, the project took about 2 months including concepting, various back and forth minor revision type stuff and finished paintings.  We also did a separate scan of textures for the back cover.  The staff at Harvard was well-prepared and easy to work with.  It was exciting giging with them, I barely graduated from high school!  Also, two previous Report artists have been Luba Lukova and Drawger homie, Brain Stauffer, so I knew it had five star potential!

The theme was rather challenging: Systems Theory as it applied to the various departments and programs at the medical school.  Systems Theory!  I might add, that in addition to the obscure subject matter, there was no actual text [only links to articles about the stuff that would be written about!].  Essentially, it’s about how parts effect wholes and that wholes are parts of greater wholes, something like that.  I read about a guy named Waddington who had a theory about how marbles roll downhill and that clicked with the molecular component and that’s how I came up with a motif that could be used throughout.  All work is made by hand via outmoded technologies.