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For Climbing Magazine and the wonderful Claire Eckstrom about “this one time” a climber needed to shit halfway up their climb - super fun and silly content that i was happy to take the reigns on

Washington Post section cover - How to prevent working to death

This Gif was for CIO and the wonderful SooJin Buzelli on the topic of Russian oil. The motion took some tinkering - the lead image is kinda the “middle ground” of where we started and ended - the first version had the hand entering and exiting, and the trip happening somewhat fast - the last version has the oil can stationary, continuously dropping oil a bit slower - i think the slower oil nails it - but i do like the slight movement of the hand - It was nice to go back and forth with SooJin about that part - she made it really easy.

Im also attaching some roughs - I LOVED the idea of an oil pump doubling as a hammer and cycle and tried to sell that (in the end, She went for the right piece - much more interesting and not so one dimensional) but the visual overlap felt like the most amazing gem.

The background building also didnt always look like this. When i built the piece in illustrator before i painted it i had real buildings - as developed as the Main one - about half way through i scrapped those and scribbled out some quick buildings and dropped them in in Photoshop as a placeholder - the second i did the whole piece came together - it offered something unexpected, and didnt take away or distract from the main image.

making emojis in your own image, for Slack - a nod to Norman Rockwell

Whats the connection between Coffee and Weed, for Chicago Mag

A couple more finals for the Economist, and a number of roughs that werent picked

Micro loans in developing nations allows borrowing when needed to promote larger growth in established markets- for the Economist

Lots of my roughs focused more on the tech elements

Cover for the Economist about the fintech / tech revolution in the developing world

for TED something something trolls and binary etc

for the WSJ about catholics living in the city

MAP THAT RASH!

New work for Reader’s Digest about identifying your rash, charting it on out.

Played with identifying rashes - not being sure what a rash meant - soothing the rash - bit of everything

A gif and Some spots about kids using devices at younger and younger ages, and them being their principal source of play and imagination - I had about a billion other ideas, but too much to post