Pack It Up...

Cover illustration I recently did for the N.Y. Times Escapes section. The article had to do with planning and packing (without leaving things behind) for family ski trips. You can view the story and the cropped online version of the art here.

Magnetic Attraction...

Dig these hip reel to reel tape covers from the Jazz Loft Project. Take a look at more over at the Loft Project's pad.

Pixels on the Track...

This is a fun project I did last month for an IBM publication. It was a cover and inside illustration with a transportation/travel theme - which I always like. The story had to do with servers, 'storage engines' and open source applications, with names like SugarCRM and Joomla. I tried to style the train to be a cross between a freight train and a more streamlined passenger train. The inside piece featured the train pulling boxcars featuring made-up product logos that symbolizing the different open source applications.

Some of the other train images I've done include a poster for Air France and a logo for Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train, which if you watch the movie to the very end you can briefly see after the credits roll. : )

"Cocktails and Laughter...

but What Comes After?" It looks like a tab of around 700 billion by the government to bail-out the crumbling and carelessly deregulated mortgage industry.

Watching the news last week reminded me of an earlier financial shakedown and one of my first 'big'covers which was for Business Week back in '87. I was still new to the biz and got a call on Friday, after the market had plunged, to do a cover for the following weeks issue. "A weekend deadline? No problem!" Because no one knew what was going to happen when the market opened on Monday they commissioned 2 versions, one with a bear and the other with a bull(that sketch had a bull that was trying to keep it's balance on the roof). I had the sketches approved Saturday, then had the finished art in their hands late Sunday night. The bear won out.