 Sex, Food, Danger
posted: January 27, 2010
I meant to post this months ago. Actually I meant to post most of these at least as a rolling update, but work, family and general slackitude got in the way.... In any event, here's some of the illos I've worked on in the past few months.
For Fast Company, on a thermostat prototype from IDEO that is controlled by breath alone. 
For Men's Journal, unfortunately killed when the full page article got reduced to a 1/3 column. Damn fractional ads. 
Infographic for Reader's Digest on how geo-engineering can mitigate climate change. 
Infographic for Spectrum magazine about different possible future scenarios of energy use 
One of several fun illos done for Spectrum's Tech Loser special. This one is about automated airport security 
And this one is about quantum computers that actually turn out to be quite dumb. 
Infographic done for PopSci on how enriched uranium can be processed either for energy use or atomic weapons 
Illos done for Rachel Ray magazine on surviving holiday travel. I think they look really nice in context, with the AD picking up the palette of my illos for her page. 
Exercise illos done for Women's Health 
For O magazine on exercising during commercial breaks 
Multitasking moms and crazy exercise regimes done for Boston magazine 
Spots done for Delta SKY magazine on how courting couples around the world behave             11 comments |
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Tokyo show pics
posted: September 11, 2009
pic courtesy of toysrevil
The Tokyo Urban Paper show opened on Monday and it was a big success with 15 artists showing their stuff. Here's the pics:
Tokyo show poster and toy
posted: August 25, 2009
It's a poster, it's a papertoy, it's both!
Here's my poster for the Urban Paper show that I'm organizing in Tokyo. It will be at Café Pause in Ikebukuro and will run from Sept. 7th to the 20th. Since not everyone who was in the book will be in the show, I didn't want to use the same photo collage from previous shows of the book that included all the designs. I also wanted to come up with something that more generically addressed the idea of papertoys and could actually BE a papertoy as well, but one that could also work as a flat image. So the poster is also the "official" mascot of the Tokyo show. Here's how it looks built. 
The Art of the Tease
posted: July 26, 2009
The mailman has been busy lately... oh man, I should just leave it at that. But this is about a book, not about me. And that's what it's about, the Tease, but in visual form or more specifically, poster design for burlesque.
Anyhow, I was psyched to receive this in the mail last week. It had been almost a year(?) since the publisher, Korero Books, contacted me about including an illustration I had done for a flyer promoting the burlesque musical act of a couple of friends, Cherry Typhoon and Satoko. Satako belts out the tunes and commands the organ (as well as a variety of drums, whistles, etc), while Cherry mesmerizes the crowd with her ample figure and outsized stage persona. They blend aspects of both Japanese and burlesque performance traditions with humor and sexuality. It’s like some crazy Tom Waits meets Kabuki shit. For this poster, I was really inspired by the early work of Tadanori Yokoo, a Japanese painter and illustrator. In fact, after seeing my poster, the head curator of a Tokyo museum that was having a retrospective of Tadanori’s work, invited Satako and Cherry Typhoon to play the opening weekend. 
My illustration for Cherry and Satoko
Besides showing an amazing array of contemporary work being done, the book is also a great resource of historical posters, highlighting some real gems of the past, a few of which are below. The book is full of amazing, sometimes outrageous imagery, and I'm really glad to have been included.
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