Bloomberg BusinessWeek: Student Loans

You can find a new illustration of mine in the current issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek for a story about the effect of Student Loan Debt on the housing market. (Check out the story here to get the full scoop, or go to page 50 if you prefer to read the old fashioned way.) Thanks to art director Lee Wilson for the assignment and the great layout idea!

Bloomberg BusinessWeek: Student Loans

...and here are a couple of the sketches that could have been, (and one of the sketches that was.) I expect "guy at desk" to make an appearance in the near future. 

Sketch 1: When Grad Caps Attack

Sketch 2: Cap and Chain

Sketch 3: Tipping the Scale

Sketch 4: Student Debt Sinkhole

Sketch 5: Buried in bills

Sketch 6: The Artist as a Recent Graduate

New York Times: Wealth Section

I have three illustrations in todays New York Times for a special section they are running on wealth. A great part of this job is getting to dive into subjects I would typically overlook. Looking for visual metaphors turns out to be a pretty handy way of teaching yourself something new. Now, even when I'm not 'on the case,' I try to boil articles down to their central ideas as I read them, and as often as not, those ideas are little pictures.  (You can read the articles here: popular, taxes, instincts.)

Thanks to Rodrigo Honeywell for the great assignment!

NY Times: Popular

NY Times: Taxes

NY Times: Instincts

Seattle Met: Solar Communities

Here is the latest illustration for Seattle Met's "Game Changers" feature. The story is about a communities efforts to bring solar energy to their town. Check it out here. This is the six story I've worked on with Art Director Andre Mora. It has been a consistently interesting section to tackle each month and a real pleasure. Thanks Andre!

Seattle Met: Solar Communities

Spirit Magazine: Oscar Age Bump

Here's an illustration I did for the current issue of Spirit Magazine (the inflight magazine for Southwest Airlines.) Every month they open their book with a section called Numbers, a series of interesting pieces of trivia illustrated with a full page image. For this assignment I was working off of the statistic that Oscar winners live 5 years longer on average than their fellow nominees. Thanks Emily Kimbro for the assignment!