This is a recent commission for an article about recruitment of US employees from Japanese companies.  Art directed by Ronn Campisi.

at the end of last summer a steamroller ran over this image i made with linoleum.

the steamroller also ran over 9 other artist's linoleum prints as well

it was for a the san francisco center for the book

alot of fun on a sunny day

Golf Digest's AD, Tim Oliver commissioned me for this fun assignment, illustrating 4 writer's favorite summertime golf getaways. Featured in the June issue, the one above is written by Mark Whitaker titled "Catskill Mountain High" referring to the summer resorts in the mountains north of New York City. I was inspired by this small excerpt from his story; "Where else do you look up from your ball and see Hasidic Jews in tall fur hats and knee-length black wool coats walking along the roads to the nearby towns, or barefoot Buddhists in flowing robes padding back in forth to the local ashram?"

Reading Richard Downs' post about working with Patrick JB Flynn brought forth memories of the early nineties when I did a few assignments for The Progressive. As it was a few years before the Internet would emerge as a business tool, he along with Patrick Mitchell who art directed Garbage magazine at the time, was keen on the idea of having art files transmitted over the phone line. I'd have to call once the illustration was complete then he'd set his modem to receive and I would begin transmission. Half an hour later he'd have the final art. Ahh technology. It felt so cutting edge at the time.

In the mid-nineties my computer HD crashed and I lost hundreds of those early images. A bitter lesson on the importance of backing up files and/or making hard copies. The image shown here is a personal piece from the mid-nineties that survived because I had an Iris print of it. Not at all representative of my dominant style at the time, It was a technique I experimented with briefly: layering loose, primitive pencil drawings in Photoshop.

I am involved in a poster and advertising campaign to raise awareness for The Starfish Project.  The image above is the first design and illustration of a three poster and magazine advertisement series. 

The project collects the unused "leftover" medication from patients in the United States who have stopped or changed their antiretrovial therapy.  All drugs have patient identification removed before they are sorted, labeled, and shipped.  To date, they have received over 374,000 donated pills and shipped most of that to partner clinics.  The goal is to collect as much medication as possible to pass on to patients in Nigeria. 

The posters will be placed in American hospitals and the ads will be in medical journals and magazines such as POZ.  There will also be some collateral and web component to try and bring awareness to the project.  Cline Davis & Mann, the ad agency, and myself will be donating our time towards this project.  I will post the rest of the posters as I finish them.