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A couple of months ago I got to work with AD Stephanie Scholz from the Berliner Zietung and made this animated illustration for a digital campaign to promote reader submission.

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Rarely does your bedroom simply serve as a bedroom. It can become your office, your garden, your gym, your rehearsal space, your library, and your art studio all throughout the course of a day. It becomes whatever you need it to be while trying to keep your spirits up amid the loneliness of sheltering in place.

Tumblr Creatr Thoka Maer (@thokamaer) illustrates how keeping occupied with your interests and hobbies helps the hours pass when isolation makes time feel like it’s standing still.

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Happy Mother’s Day to all you moms and mom’s to be out there. 

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So very excited to share this piece I got to work on with @tonydeluxxx for the @nytimes. It is a series of personal accounts of people who have fallen sick with Covid-19, including my own. I’ve always been in love with any sort of rear window kind of narrative and was beyond stoked to utilize this trope for such a current and relevant story.

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When Breath Becomes Air: Not my kind of book but it was very insightful but also utterly tragic. A Gentleman in Moscow: Yes, very readable. The Plague: Has one of my all time favs and now one of four books I read for a second time.

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At the end of last year I got to work with a great team @zero.studios to create a series of illustrations for Canvas Medical. All illustration a geared toward explaining Canvas Medical very specific products and functionalities while keeping them cool. I’m gonna post a few of the illustrations and this one here is one of my personal favs. Swipe right for the animated version (animated by @pg.finn)

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December reads. 

Spring Snow: An insufferable written version of #richkidsoninstagram with good prose.

The Testament: Meh.

Marcovaldo: A real piece of candy reading it after Spring Snow and The Testament.

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Second out of three editorial animated illustration for Nike.

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Super excited to share this animated illustration I made for @Nike ’s editorial Nike News to introduce a new type of sports bra. This is 1/3 illustrations I made in this series

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Another animated illustration for @audubonsociety climate guide. This one is also from Level 1 which talks about immediate action everyone of us can take. “Find Your Climate Story” This illustration accompanied an article on how you can improve your house to be more energy efficient. 

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This is the first out of many posts to come from a project I got to work on for @audubonsociety. A comprehensive guide to action on climate change. I’m very grateful to have been given this opportunity and to work with such a dedicated team on a topic that relevant to all of us. 15 pages and a partly animated online edition! More soon.

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READS

August reads. Countdown: This one makes sure you feel terrible about humanity in various ways. Der Spieler: Reads a like D. wrote in the car on his way to work.

September reads. We: A more poetic version of Brave New World The Future of Humanity: I would have loooooved this book as a 12yrs old!

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June reads.

Review: The Storytelling Animal: It’s a vegan cookie of a read. Light, sweet and kinda ok. The Wisdom of Insecurity: Yes! Aged well and provided me with an unexpected insightful perspective on religion. Damascus Nights: Yeeeees! I’ve always loved middle eastern storytelling. This is a delicious one. 

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bye bye old stuff

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Animated illustration for an article on @medium @elemental“Managing Chronic Illness in the Workplace” by Jenni Gritters. ⭐️ AD @tessa_extra ⭐️

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Animated illustration for Barron’s  “How to Parse All the Metrics of Sustainability” by Leslie P. Norton

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Excerpt from my commission for Medium.