2018 Illustration Round up part 1

The future of Business for the Boston Globe

The autumn entry into my 4 seasons of high fashion women with giant breed dogs series. A Borzoi sittin’ shotgun in a 1950 Jaguar XK120 OTS. Centuries old Korean art tattoos, a Bicorne Skimmer hat by Lilly Daché, and the suit is by Frost Brothers. This piece was chosen for the Society of Illustrators annual show. 

For the Radio Times in London about Daryl Gregory’s book, Spoonbenders about a family who pretended to have psychic superpowers in the 70s. The wanted something with a 70s gig poster feeling

In 1870 the Croquet Association outlawed "Sparking", which is stepping on your ball when it's touching your opponents ball, striking your own and sending theirs flying. It is still used in backyard games and is the most fun aspect of the game for me. If you savagely "spark" someone's ball you could be asking for a fight. 1950s stylings, Japanese Ukiyo-e tattoos. Prim and proper meets rebellion and self expression. This series was chosen for the Society of Illustrator's annual show. 

As the Waymo v. Uber trail begins it has Silicon Valley asking where the line between intellectual property ends and theft begins. Uber is accused of colluding with Anthony Levandowski (an early engineer who left Waymo in 2016 to work for Uber) to steal self driving car secrets. Basically there is an existential question of when does knowledge become trade secrets?

When I lived in Tokyo I took up the Japanese tradition of sending a new year zodiac animal postcard. 2018 is the year of the dog. This dog is based on an Inu Hariko (lucky dog toys that are the protectors of children and pregnant women). The bottom left says 2018 (in a special year numbering system) and the character below it is the special character for dog used only for year of the dog. On the top left it basically says Happy New Year.

Bring it don't sing it! 1950s stylings, Japanese Ukiyo-e tattoos. Prim and proper meets rebellion and self expression. This series was chosen for the Society of Illustrator's annual show.

for a story about VR

Insert your best classy yet trashy insult here. 1950s stylings, Japanese Ukiyo-e tattoos. Prim and proper meets rebellion and self expression. This series was chosen for the Society of Illustrator's annual show. 

story about various opioid epidemic points like: how society needs to stop treating the addicted as criminals and treat it as an illness and stop blaming them. The basic moral is that it’s our problem, not solely theirs. For Emory Alumni magazine.