Hell's Gourmet Kitchen

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Hi Blog. This is a piece I did for this week's Time Out New York and the Gourmet Food Truck Bazaar. This piece was done really quickly and it was a crunch getting it in. I simplified the people and kept it nice and graphic without too many visual acrobatics.

The Gourmet Food Truck Bazaar is happening on Sunday, May 2nd in Hell's Kitchen (W 39th St at Ninth Ave). Check it out the day after Floyd retires Shane.

The Manhattan (+Brooklyn) Project

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Hey Blog. This is a piece I just finished for Time Out New York for their Brooklyn vs Manhattan issue. It's a map of the two boroughs that supposes the effects of their connecting bridges collapsing, halting the exchange of people and products between them. It's fairly humorous, and was fun to do because of all the little drawings (and I rarely ever design maps). Each one is numbered and here's a breakdown of what they are.

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The Handsomeness of Randomness

Hey Blog, what it is. I've been fairly busy lately, yet here we are. The final semester (!) is going pretty well, and I'm onto a good start for the second part of my thesis. I've realized a few things and I've created a loose narrative to focus the pieces more. I'm not going to post them yet, as I want a few in the can before I start declaring them "finals". Also, I've taken on a couple of outside projects that will occupying a decent amount of my spare time, but they're well worth it. One of them is a promotional poster for SVA's MFA Illustration Thesis Show in May. Its a large collaborative effort, and difficult to pull off, but the artists involved are so ridiculously talented that I don't see it failing. In fact, I'm usually dumbstruck as to the talent in the room sometimes. I see this as a last group hoorah before we go our separate ways into the ether of commercial art.

Anyway, since I'm not going to show new stuff at the moment, I thought I'd post a few gems that I've overlooked for this blog due to either time constraints or wrongful neglect.


First up is the spec sheet for the Alternative Pick's annual Double Deck that went out to the participating artists last Summer/Fall. Its fairly simple, but I dig the colors. Also, its worth noting that the type for the cards itself changed during the creation process but definitely for the better. On a sidenote, the previous year's version had MUCH more copy. When I put this together, I forgot about the previous year's copy and almost wondered why I had so much room to work with. However, Maria (Altpick's founder) was all about it fortunately, and added only a couple of essential notes. Once again you're a savior Maria!


This is a piece I did for Timeout New York in October. Once again Jeff Quinn gave me an opportunity to expand the pre-existing image into a much larger panel. There's no punchline, and its not funny, but this might be my favorite of the few Photo Finishes I've done. Also, note the presence of newly elected senator Al Franken (I don't know you Norm Coleman, but Al has given the world laughs since before I was born. What have you done?). Please forgive the scan btw, I was looking frantically for the original file but probably deleted it by accident; but for some reason not having the original makes me feel like a real illustrator.


This last piece goes back to '07, when I was on the train heading to the Big Apple Circus. A homeless man had fallen asleep on the train, and his boots left a large pile of dirt on the seat. I thought the image was too powerful to not capture somehow. In hindsight, I truly wish I had woken him up to show him.

Anyway, that's it for now. The new pieces will be up soon, but until then, peace Blog.

Knight-Ripper

Hey Blog. Its Labor Day in America so I'm busy doing as little work as possible. Last post I put up a piece for Business Week, so now I'm gonna put up a silly little piece I did for Time Out New York's Photo Finish column. Whenever I get a request to do one I always kinda laugh to myself and then mutter a quiet "yes...!". This is because these pieces are just an opportunity to do something completely goofy and I can decompress a little on them. The issue has been on the stands for the past week and I have yet to get it b/c I've been lazy (I'm trying to get all my naps in before the new semester starts).

Anyway, here's the photo:

And here's the final:

In case you don't get it Blog, it's an homage to the classic rivalry of K.I.T.T. and K.A.R.R. in the original KnightRider series. K.A.R.R. was K.I.T.T.'s predecessor, but was abandoned in a warehouse because of a malfunction which made his main function self-preservation (I also think he had father issues). Also, K.A.R.R. stood for Knight Automated Roving Robot. I don't know what T.R.U.K.K. would stand for, so don't ask me.

That's it for now. Tomorrow's the first day of school so I need to get my sleep and pack tomorrow's lunch. Peace Blog.

The Roof Is On Fire

Hey there blog. Whew, I've been busy lately. But before that, I saw The Incredible Hulk yesterday, and it was pretty good. I think Iron Man was better, but Ed Norton did not disappoint. I don't know if I believed Liv Tyler as a physicist, and the proto-Doc Samson character was a little over the top, but overall it was very strong.

Anyway, I did another small piece for Time Out New York's Photo Finish column. Here's the original photo (taken by Renee T. Oni-Eseleh).

and here's the final illustration:

I actually had a few versions, before we decided on the final. So as a bonus, here's my (very mean) first version:
Thanks to Jeff Quinn again for letting me do another fun piece.

I have some other pieces coming down the shoot so I'll update again soon. Until then, later blog.