Social Media’s cool, E-Dating is not - LA Times
I had the pleasure of working with Wes at the LA Times again, but this time it was for a section of the newspaper called ‘LA Affairs’. The article I was given to work on was about a millennial/hipster who is down with being wired into her smart phone/twitter/instagram/you name it but can’t get down with online dating.
Her reasoning is that everyone posts pictures of themselves from 10 years ago, lie about some of their interest/hobbies, ect. It’s kinda sad to hear all of that but in the end, everyone needs a little bit of love.
Riding Bikes. Driving Cars. - Honolulu Magazine
Here’s my latest piece for Honolulu Magazine’s “Afterthoughts section”. This month, I illustrated an article about Mikes personal dilemma. On one hand he is a huge supporter of riding his bike every where in the city, but as he get’s older he starts to see the benefits of owning a car. He can drive his friends everywhere, and make grocery shopping much easier too. Meaning he can carry more than one bag full of groceries back to his place. This was super fun to work on.
On a side note, I am pretty sure this is my ninth or tenth illustration over the past year that I’ve drawn a bike(s). None of which was drawn for a bicycle magazine. Hit me up guys!
Lack of Police Presence - Honolulu Magazine
For May, I was asked to illustrate an opinion-driven piece for Honolulu Magazine’s “Afterthoughts.”
The article described the lack of police presence in Honolulu’s up and coming China Town. The authors used Otto of Otto’s Cakes (a famous local cake shop) to show how drug dealers are threatening local merchants to move out of the neighborhood.
Otto attempted to gain the attention of police with no luck. Eventually, he wrote “HELP” on the window and a note saying he would only take orders placed over the phone/email and no longer held regular business hours . What a shame!
Here are two other ideas I conjured up. The first, a switch blade in a cake. The second, Otto waiting for phone calls hunched behind the counter while the doors remained locked. Thanks again Cody + Mike for an awesome written piece to illustrate.
Alumni Stories - Notre Dame Magazine
Recently I had the pleasure of working with Kerry at Notre Dame magazine. The series consisted of shot stories written by alumni. This a dream job for me because I believe that my work fits well with a lot of content, but short stories go the extra mile in terms of visuals.
The above image is for a story about how distance is created in a friendship due Facebook’s false representations of self. You can be so distant from seeing all the signs that your friend of so many years might be depressed to the point of taking her own life and in the story that is exactly what happens.
This is a story written by an alumni about a crazy adventure in the Congo where she had to get a signature from an arch bishop. What would of normally been a 3 hour drive became a five event because of different conflicts that came along the way.
What you get for buying cheap bank stock - Bloomberg View
I had the pleasure of working with Phil on a piece for the Bloomberg View. The article is about how buying bank stock may still be cheap but that there are all sorts of problems that come along with it.
On Sale Gold bicycle = Bank Stocks.
Quonset huts - Honolulu Magazine
I hope everyone had a great leap day!
Here is the latest piece I completed for my monthly “After Thoughts” section in Honolulu Magazine. Mike wrote a story in this month’s issue that tells of his love for the old Quonset huts that are native in Hawaii. After much research I discovered that Quonset huts were used in the late 1800’s/early 1900’s when military was set up in Pearl Harbor. These huts have been slightly modified over the years and have been redesigned for other uses all over the world. As we progress more into the 21st century, these huts have been put on the back burner, and Mike wanted to highlight this cool piece of Hawaiian history.
The two concepts portrayed in the illustrations were the hut in the landscape or of its alternative use outside of city life.
Thanks again, Cody for asking me to do another piece for Honolulu Magazine and sharing a little piece of Hawaiian history in the process.
Reminiscing - The Globe & Mail
I had the pleasure of working with Cinders at the Globe & Mail for a piece in their “Facts and Arguments” section. She assigned a narrative story about a man reminiscing about his childhood in Port Credit, Ontario while with his wife, two year old son and dog. The overall art direction was to show the family walking around their neighborhood into which, it is alluded, they could move back.
These were two sketches I thought would have been cool to follow through with and luckily the first one was chosen. In the second sketch I wanted to focus on a moment in the story where his wife was looking at him with a smile (which is something that is repeated a lot in the story) as he looks at az old home remembering a moment in time.
I am flattered to now be a contributing writer for Agency Access. Just about every month, I will be writing an article about the business of illustration based on questions asked on an Agency Access poll done last year.
My first post is about preparing for/setting up Portfolio Reviews.
Too Many Whistle Blowers
I totally forgot to blog about this piece. I did work for Levi, the art director of Nexus magazine, who is associated with the University of Toronto law program.
The article focused on the incentives given to those who whistle blow on their companies and the influx of these clients to lawyers. So, now lawyers have to find new ways to sift through the poor information to find out who is really trying to do the right thing and who is trying to get some extra coin by giving lame information, which could both shame the company and be a huge cost to the lawyers when they lose their suit. HEAVY STUFF!
Allison Weiss + Rachel Cantu go on tour
Allison Weiss hit me up to do a tour poster that also translated into an awesome website so you can check out Allison or Rachel anywhere on tour.
I did the illustration, Allison did the print/web design for this project.
My favorite part about working on this piece was playing around with and loosely translating stuff with painterly brush strokes so that the car would be more of a focal point. I also had to paint the “canyon-like forms a few times to get it just right and not look too loosely painted or in bad form.
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
