nucleus show

I will be participating in the Power in Numbers show at Nucleus gallery, if you are free Saturday night the 12th, come and check it out, free refreshments and for a good cause--A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the American Red Cross of Greater Los Angeles. here are my 4 pieces in the show, everything in the show is 5" by 7" and priced at $100.

SI 52!

just found out I had two pieces featured in the society of illustrators 52 annual ( book category), the image in my last post and another one from the same project. very exiting news! one more thing to be thankful for this year....

another illo for the Imaginary 2oth century book, it's for one of the more fantastic chapters that took place in Greece, lot of crazy Victorian invention references. good suggestion about the train in the background, Norman, thanks!

think i haven't posted any sketch book pages a while, for those of you who are interested...

a guy i saw...

happy summer!

I've been working with the brilliant Norman Klein, culture critic and media historian, for the past couple of weeks, and it's been a great learning experience. I'm making 12 illustrations for his new book Imaginary 20th century, it's a pretty interesting read and comes with an astonishing archive of photographs and illustrations from the time period put together by Margo Bistis. we are doing something new with the way the book and the archive are presented, I'll follow up on that later. if you are still reading, this is the image for the first chapter, set in1893's Chicago world's fair, hopefully my illustration makes you interested in the book and the archive, you can check them out here.

american illustration 28

last week I was pretty excited to find out that this piece I did was chosen to appear in the American Illustration 28 book. this image was done for my self-promotional postcard. it proved that ideas really can strike at any time, I think I was in the shower when this idea came to me. thanks to the AI28 jury for the encouragement.

I'm making bags!

hey everyone, I've been playing around with some tote bag designs lately, they came out pretty fun, i think. also, I'll be having a booth at the Pasaneda open market this Sunday, so come by and say hi when you get a chance, check out the bags I designed, they are available at my Etsy store.

a piece I just did for American Way, interesting article about how introverted personality can succeed in the business world, yeah! wallflowers of the world unite!

I'm following the trend here, just added RSS feature to my blog, so you can subscribe to my blog to get the news and other updates.

it's always a thrill to look at your own work in print! this is an illustration I did a while back for MovieMaker magazine. thanks to the art director Rob Hewitt for giving me total freedom to do what I wanted. and also I was glad to find out that fellow illustrator Jon Han has a piece in the same issue as well! make sure to check out his work here, big fan!

Jon's piece

new illustration for United Airlines Hemispheres Magazine, working with AD Rob Hewitt again, fantastic to work with as always. the story is about a journalist adjusting to his new stay at home dad role.

2009!

one of my new year resolutions is to work on more graphic design projects. here is an identity design I did last year in collaboration with designer Butter, for the talented Eugene Fuller, who is a musician, director and writer. check out his site here.