New York Times: Billings, MT.

Keep your eyes peeled for an illustration of mine in today's New York Times. Read the story here. Or find the print version in the National section.

New York Times: Out Here, Billings, MT.

Culturomics Logo

A few months ago I posted some sketches I had done for Wired magazine. (The piece for that never ended up running, but I won't go into that heartache.) One of the sketches was an illustration of the term "Culturomics," which had been coined by a team of Harvard researchers to describe their work. One of the researchers must have stumbled across my blog, because a few weeks later they asked if I would like to use the sketch I had done as the basis for their logo. I have never had this happen, and I was thrilled. Be sure, from now on I will definitely be posting my sketches!

Culuromics Logo

Retro Desktop Icons

Hi Internet Friends,
A few months ago I killed a weekend designing this set of custom desktop icons. My computer looked pretty snazzy for about half an hour before it was once again buried in random internet detritus. If you would like to bring some retro-chic (or whatever) to your own computing experience, please help yourself!

Floppy Disk

Monitor

Cassette

Joy Stick

To use any of these on your own desktop, download the files by clicking the links below and follow these instructions:

for Mac Users:

1. Open the File in Preview
2. Select the image by typing Command+A.
3. Copy the image by typing Command+C.
4. Click on the File or Application you want to use the icon for and type Command+I to open the information menu.
5. Click on the icon at the top left of the page and Paste the new icon by typing Command+V.

For PC Users:

1. Follow this link. (I haven't tried this, but it seems legit!)

Files for Mac:

cassette.icns
joystick.icns
monitor.icns
floppydisk.icns

Files for PC:

(Unfortunately, I hit a roadblock converting these to ico files. If you are a PC wiz, feel free to snag the PNG files by clicking the images above. And maybe someone can post a good link for PNG to ICO conversion in the comments box.)

Happy Trails!

Plainview Dispatch: Above the Fold

 
I was organizing my hard drive this morning when I stumbled across these sketches for a proposed video game. The project never ended up being finished, but I thought I would share these anyway. (Maybe one of these days I'll even manage to turn it into something!)

The game, as I storyboarded it out, would follow a photojournalist on his first day at a small newspaper (The Plainview Dispatch.) Stories would come in over the radio, and the player would race to get usable pictures before the press deadline.

Title Screen

The First Assignment

Parking Garage

Navigating Town

A Burglary In Progress

In the Darkroom

New York Times: Public Domain

I was commissioned to illustrate an Op-Ed piece for today's New York Times. The essay, written by Peter Decherney, describes the impact of a 1996 decision by Congress to drastically limit the number of intellectual properties that artists would be allowed to draw from without fear of copyright infringement.
My illustation is an interpretation of the idea that creatives (in this case a film director) would need to go through a legal process to use fictional characters/stories (in this case an ogre) in their projects. You can read the article, and see the illustration in context here. Thanks to Aviva Michaelov for the great assignment!

New York Times : "Contract Signing"

Bloomberg BusinessWeek: Insulin Man

I got the chance to do a little character design for Bloomberg Businessweek. This little 'Insulin Guy' was commissioned for a story about Novo Nordisk's attempt to create and market a more expensive "up-scale" insulin. Check out the story here. Thanks to Shawn Hasto for the assignment, and Pat Kinsella for help with the execution.

Seattle Met: Infintite Bible

This month Seattle Met is running their third installment of Game Changers, a monthly tech column I have been contributing illustrations to. The story for October is about an online start-up that is trying to combine bible study with social media. The project, "Infinite Bible," ( www.oobible.com) incorporates wiki style footnoting and gives users a profile that allows them to share their own interpretations of specific passages. I signed up hoping to be able to eavesdrop on some holy flame wars, but it turns out that until you are 'friended,' everyone's comments are invisible. Oh well.

Seattle Met: "Infinite Bible"