Hospital Readmissions

For New York Times article on medicare and doctors cyclical problem of readmitting patients to hospitals. Therese Shechter, the clever AD suggested among other things a hospital bracelet, which I liked as a symbol, but what to do with it?

Therese picked the infinite loopish one and introduced me to it's actual name: mobius strip.

And here's the line drawing that I choose not to use in the final, seemed to feel deeper and more interesting with just a hint of line.

Happy Thanksgiving

Here's the next in my series of greeting cards.
I'm going to do the entire year and then the whole years worth of cards will be offered for sale as a package.
If you want to get on the mailing list drop me a note of your address.

Assassination of Deputy Escalante

For the cover for the LAWeekly, about a young police officer gunned down for retribution by the Mexican mafia. Art director was Darrick Rainey. Got to do some research on Mexican gang tattoos, which was interesting.

The roughs.


Some color studies. I decided the black mass of thugs help the deputy remain the main focal point.

Here's the cover (thanks Jeff), I thought Darrick did a great job on the typography.
I did all line work on this because Darrick requested it, instead of my embossing textures because of printing concerns, which was fine. I actually love just line work, it's relaxing.

Happy Halloween

Kids are so hard to scare these days, so I had to go a different route.

Confederate Flag

I actually don't have strong feelings towards the Confederate flag, having grown up in and lived mostly in mountain west, but it occasionally it pops up on a truck around here driven by someone I know isn't from the South, which I find odd.

So when I saw one the other day, it got me thinking... I've seen the American flag get visually chastised for it's sins real and imagined a million times (by me included), but never the confederate flag.

So I figured it was due for a trip to the woodshed, albeit a hundred years late.

Orphans

For Suffolk Law School on creating more permanent family solutions for orphans, like adoption.
Art director was Kaajal Asher.
The roughs ideas.

Tighter sketch and color studies.

New York Times OpEd

Did the OpEd for the New York Times yesterday, on Obama on Iran and how his policy is in a free-fall. Art direction by Kim Bost.



Along with the usual ideas, I was thinking of Obama dropping the ball as a visual, but the problem is he's actually really good a sports. Then I remembered him throwing some gutterballs trying to bowl on the campaign trail last year and bingo something a bit more fresh.

Luckily the editors picked up on it as well and choose that one.