Border for Williams magazine

 

For Williams magazine

Sketches sent. The art director on this (Lily Pereira) decided on the face with the fence across them but to switch the fence out with red tape since the editor wanted to focus on the bureaucratic obstacles for immigrants.

Tight color sketch sent.

Another tight color sketch with art director and editor requested tweaks, to make sure everything is good be I go to final.

They also wanted a spot that would kind of tie in with the cover of the book the article is based on.and that 

Because it is referenced visually at the start of the article.

So this was our solution to that.

 Spot in print

Final layout with brilliant typography by Lilly.

Spiritual and Financial Fraud

 

"Spiritual and Financial Fraud"

for the Ensign magazine

Some roughs, dropped a few into the layout the AD on this (Hailey Wagner) 

had supplied to me at the start.

Here's some the accompanying spots.

Thanks Hailey!

Covid-19 series for Deloitte

 

So coronavirus kept me busy illustration wise in 2020. Mainly this series for Deloitte.

The above Black Swan cover was probably my favorite from the series.

Here's the roughs. The initial idea got modified as me and the art director worked it out.

Below are some other of my favorite covers from the series. It was a challenge because it had to work with sub-brands and Deloitte brand colors etc.

 

Here's thumbnails of a most of the covers.

And here's the first set of roughs I made for this series. The AD Matt Lennert made a key move at the start of this project by identifying the visual potential of the spilt virus background idea and a way to build an entire series off of, which was huge.

Soccer

For Science and Letters magazine on how soccer can unite and divide us.

The AD saw the simple potential of the figures forming a face. As you can see I was favoring the upper left one. That's why AD's get credit for every illustration in an annual. They are a huge part of an illustration's success, in this case Tim Madle, Landesberg Design.

 

The spread in the magazine, thanks Tim!

Reinvent the 401K - Wall Street Journal

"Let's Reinvent the 401K" for the Wall St. Journal. Below is an example of the helpfulness of back and forth with the art director makes for a better image that you can do alone.

Initial direction from the AD was to explore the word "retire" being built by construction workers. So I did that and tried to add some more ideas. 

Tighten that RETIRE idea..

Nah too mathematical. How about that egg idea? Which was Keith's.

Perspective is wrong, looks like it's in a cage...

Better, but the people are too important, let's scale them down.

The editor wants no people. And what about a nest?

This will work.

Can we make it wider for the web and animate it?

And here it is big in print. Thanks Keith!

Ocean Plastic Pollution

For the Coastal Table magazine, on how plastic pollution 

in the ocean is entering the food chain and getting to us humans.

The headline to work off was "Plastics Never Die, But They Might Kill Us"

Since the article mentioned plastic straws a lot, I got a little too excited about this idea...

But the Karen Covey the editor, picked this one, which ended up being more timeless take on the iconic plastic bag in a tree that you see everywhere.

Here it is in print :) Thanks Karen!

Trump as Cyrus the Great - NY Times

Quick one for NY Times on Trump and American Presidents being compared to Cyrus the Great.

So I explored Flag, God, Cyrus and President ideas.

Jim Datz the AD, picked this one, which was a good call.