Found in Time Out Chicago

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You can find a drawing of mine in Time Out Chicago this week, illustrating a story on the local start-up Found in Town.

The web service provides stickers and key rings with individual codes to be applied to oft-lost items like keys, cell phones, wallets and the like. If lost and found (and reported), the owner will receive an email with details on how and where they can retrieve. Click on the image to enlarge or download the pdf to read the story.

Time Out Chicago is a weekly covering “everything there is to watch, read, laugh at, listen to, shop for, eat and experience” in the 3rd largest city in the United States.

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New foot forward

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prAna’s Spring 2012 line is now on-line and so is the website footer I recently created for them. The fern fronds were hand-drawn and “colored” using photographs. You’ll find the word “prana” not-too concealed, in keeping with the art of past seasons.

prAna is a 19-year-old clothing retailer based in southern California. Popular from the beginning with yoga and climbing communities, the line—pants, shirts, jackets, sweaters, dresses, hoodies… you name it—is a favorite of outdoor enthusiasts and others attracted to prAna’s bohemian style and sustainable messaging. You can find something for yourself at their stores in Boulder, Santa Barbara and Portland, online at prana.com, or at a host of retail partners around the world.

Look for more illustration completed for prAna’s Spring and Summer catalogs on the blog in coming weeks.

 

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Illustrations for Kiplinger’s

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Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine recently commissioned three photo illustrations to complement the February 2012 issue’s cover story: Save Thousands in 15 Minutes or Less!

Left to right: Full-page illustration that served to kick-off the story; illustration that accompanied banking tips (e.g. ditch that expensive airline credit card); illustration that ran adjacent to phone-related tips (e.g. lose your landline, use apps to text for free, etc.). Click on each of the images to enlarge, or download a pdf of the story to see the work in context.

Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine was founded in 1947 and has a paid monthly circulation of 800,000. The monthly advises its readers on managing their money—covering investing, retirement planning, taxes, insurance, real estate, buying and leasing a car, health care, travel and financing college.

Midwest Australia

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Happy New Year! I had some fun with this illustration, a reimagining of six Midwestern states in the form of Australia (using actual boundary lines of Australia’s provinces). Photographs were taken in East Helena, Montana. Please click on the image to enlarge.

If you are into maps (as I am), check out Montpelier, another map-inspired project featuring a contiguous hand-drawn line over 46 photographs. Both projects are a mash up of photography and illustration, the real and the imagined.

 

My apologies to subscribers that were resent older posts late-December. My web host had a hard disk failure that resulted in posts getting resent (at time of failure and again upon restoration).

Le tigre

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Sad fruits are never in season

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Sad fruits make my wife and boys happy. At their urging, a few fruits are now here on the blog. If they make you smile too, download the desktop wallpaper or 13 x 9″ wrapping paper. Who needs Harry & David when you’ve got these guys to keep you company?

Another night of inneraction

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The Inneract Project, with support from the San Francisco chapter of the AIGA, hosts its annual fundraiser A Night of Inneraction on December 8, 2011. Tickets available for purchase online or at the door include wine, cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, DJ, and 2 raffle tickets.

Raffle items include: signed 7 x 7″ prints Hills like white elephants, Untitled (Montpelier), and Untitled (owl) (L to R, above); a signed copy of Paula Scher’s new book Maps; signed books from Stephen Heller, James Victore, Carolina de Bartolo and Erik Spiekermann; signed posters from Michael Beirut and Eric Heiman; and three titles from local publisher Chronicle Books.

When: Thursday, December 8, 2010 from 7-10 p.m.
Where: 144 King Street (across the street from AT&T Park), San Francisco

Inneract Project is an AIGASF professionally-supported program providing free design classes and workshops to inner-city youth to foster interest in design fields and help channel kids’ creativity into viable career paths.

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Clean

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An experiment with layering and transparency. In this image, the Boy Scout Law was hand drawn, then cut from paper and layered over a photograph, behind lightbulbs.

Letters and lightbulbs and presidents, oh my!

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I hope this finds everyone well post-Thanksgiving. I’ve been busy creating new drawings for prAna’s Spring and Summer ’12 apparel catalogs, as well as the February issue of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine. And I relaunched my website earlier this month to better feature a portfolio of lettering, portraits, animals, and spot illustration. Stop by if you have time—I’d be honored if you’d take a look.

 

You will obtain your goal if you maintain your course

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You will obtain your goal if you maintain your course is the sixth entry to a series featuring fortunes. Photographs were taken at Cato’s Ale House in Oakland, California, in 2011.

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