The New York Times Sunday Styles

I did an illustration for the cover of the Sunday Style

section of The New York Times.

The article is about trimming your list down to fit

financial needs. It's something my whole family

is doing this year (kids only) so I can relate.

So they wanted Santa's list with names falling off

and turning into snowflakes.

Done and done.

This is a picture I took while I was cutting out all the names.

I got lots of Style section kids on the list and some family and friends.

I also got S. Britts Eddy making his way off of the list.

Sorry Eddy you've definitely been naughty.

The finish turned out really nice.

The snowflakes were the hardest part but I

think the variety of them is fun.

It looks amazing in the paper.

(I know I use the word amazing a lot but

I am always amazed at how lucky I am.)

Thank you to wonderful AD Corinne Myller

for the smooth sailing on this job.

Power In Numbers 4 - Revisited

Thanks to everybody who came out in the rain

to the show at Gallery Nucleus last night.

It was nice to see friends and meet amazing people.

The work was crazy good, it is an honor to be a part of.

If you didn't catch the show last night it will be up

until the 28th of December.

Power In Numbers 4

This coming saturday, I am part of a big

group show at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra.

Every piece is 5"x7" and are priced at $100.

All proceeds benefit the Red Cross.

I wanted to create a series,

so I decided to do stacks of animals.

I also choose the color palette for each

based on the four seasons.

I had done a crocodile pile in the past

and wanted to take another stab at it.

I also did a Yak Stack

and a Sheep Heap.

For the fourth one I was going to do a Hound Mound

(which I will probably still do) but I decided to

cut a title of sorts instead.

Sometimes Things Just Start To Pile Up

When I put them all together they reminded me

of the set of Yo Gabba Gabba. Completely unintentional.

Now if I could only get DJ Lance Rock behind my work.

Gallery Nucleus

210 East Main Street

Alhambra, CA 91801

December 12th from 7PM - 10PM

See you there!

GO Magazine

I got a call to do some cut paper snowflakes.

The scientific kind. Mmm...Science.

Go Magazine, which is an in-flight magazine,

asked me to illustrate the four types of snow:

Graupel

Needles and Plates

Stellar Dendrites

and Puff Balls.

The puff balls were by far the hardest thing I've cut

in a while, as the actual pieces are about 5" across.

I would love to get more science type work.

It's a nice challenge.

Thanks to Tim, for the perfect Art Direction.

BUST Magazine

I had the awesome opportunity of working for Bust Magazine.

The article is about DIY-ing the major events of your life.

So I just had to work marriage, childbirth, and death into

one illustration. No big deal. Skulls, babies, and wedding veils

are like the perfect illustration ingredients.

I thought that all three events have invitations.

I wanted to make it look like invitations that ripped away

showing the other invitations for the other events.

Kinda confusing but I had a vision

Here's my sketch.

I put in the colors so the AD would know what I was thinking.

Finish:

I like seeing how close the finish can be to the

sketch and this one is pretty close.

I think the only thing I changed was her lipstick.

I couldn't be more happy with the finish.

The torn paper looks good (I was hesitant), the shadows turned out

nice, and best of all, the articles message gets across with one image.

They did a hell of a job with the spread too.

The titles and the colors from the illustration

all working together look pretty awesome.

I also got the honor of being on the contributor page.

I had to take a picture for it so I rolled out of bed and took one:

It was a fun fun fun job.

Much thanks to the amazing AD Laurie Henzel.

In the Meantime

I have some new items in the store.

I made some pocket mirrors for the ladies and the ladies men.

So you get one mirror with shipping for $5.
Or you can buy the entire set with shipping for $17.

If you buy the whole set you get two free buttons.

I made a set for breakfast, lunch, and dinner

but decided not to use the paper cut I made for dinner.

Too many animals eating other animals.

They were fun to make and I think they turned out really nice.

The New York Times 2009 Holiday Gift Guide

I worked many moons on the 2009 Holiday Gift Guide

for The New York Times. It's a project that has evolved a lot.

I was asked to do 6 illustrations for each category:

Electronics, Books, DVD's and VideoGames,

Dining and Home, Music and Theatre, and Style.

So my idea was to have an illustration encapsulated

inside a special snowflake. For example, the category of

Dining and Home would have a cutlery snowflake.

They turned out way better then I could have hoped for.

The snowflakes are cool and complex enough

that they have a good second read.

They ended up not fitting in their intended space.

So I went back to the drawing board to maximize

and simplify. The three they are using right

now are these (with more to come)

They're different but good.

The pie turned out looking especially neat.

I also ended up doing the header to unify the

entire Gift Guide. They had a preexisting grid they

used so I just cut it and made it my own.

It looks small here but is much bigger on the actual site.

It turned out really nice.

Cutting type out of paper is extremely satisfying.

It took on many different phases and was a fun

project to work on. I think that simplifying everything

really helped it in the end.

It's nice to see a project evolve and all the work that

it took to get the final result.

That Just Happened!

Happy Halloween!

"Yes, I am the popular social network known as Bookface."

Halloween Revolt

WIRED Magazine

I got the amazing opportunity to

illustrate for the new WIRED Magazine.

The article is about Tim and Eric Great Show, Awesome Job!

I've been a fan of Tim and Eric since Tom Goes To The Mayor,

so it was perfect when the Art Director called

and told me about the job and that I had to watch

all the episodes and go crazy with the illustration.

I had to do one full page title, an itty bitty illustration

(itty bitty being AD lingo), and a drop cap.

I sent in one sketch, with all the elements that I

could fit from the show. There was tons more stuff

I could have put in this illustration.

Then I cut it. Dimensional things got worked out but everything

stayed from the sketch. I'm proud of how the type looks

and all the details turned out pretty cool.

For the drop caps, I figured it would be easier

for me to just start cutting.

These are the sketches/finishes of the letter I:

They chose the furry one in a puddle of blood at the bottom.

I like how they all look laid out together.

As for the itty bitty illustration:

It was a pretty amazing job and it looks nice

in the magazine next to the picture of Eric.

Thanks to Maili Holiman for the awesome job!

Paper Wedding

Today I have the pleasure of being featured on Daily Candy.

It's an article about paper weddings, from invitations and gifts,

to guest books and favors. Sounds like an awesome wedding to me.

SPACETIME Wallpapers

Over at Kitsune Noir, he had a wallpaper contest

for his recent project for Poketo!

There are four amazing artists involved with the project:

Cody Hudson, Mike Perry, Damien Correll, and Andy Miller.

So I made a couple of cut paper wallpapers with the

hopes of winning some cool Poketo! gear (i need a new wallet.)

I didn't win but I still like my wallpapers (and still need a new wallet.)

The second wallpaper is just part of a larger, nine foot long piece.

Maybe I won the contest in some other SPACETIME continuum.

Hope you like them.

The Good 100

I got the amazing privilege to work at Good Magazine

for a few days cutting paper and meeting some really cool people.

It was a great new space with a good vibe and a ton of paper.

We were making 100 different paper sculptures

for 100 different good world issues/solutions.

There was about 25 of us just cutting and gluing to our hearts content.

I did about a dozen said sculptures.

Some of the illustrations on the cover are also

spots for the articles in the inside.

My contribution to the cover? The carrot by my thumb.

Here are the illustrations I did on the inside.

TEDx

Urban Sidewalks

White Washing

Open Source

Sports after Katrina

Meat in Bulk

It's funny to see them in the magazine because they are so small.

The steak here is actually like 14 inches long and

the football helmet is probably a foot tall.

It reminds me of Aladdin when the genie says

"Infinite cosmic power. Itty bitty living space."

I guess I'm kinda glad my paper cuts don't have infinte cosmic power.

That would be a lot of pressure.

I do think that these turned out pretty nice.

It was another awesome job with Good Magazine.

Thanks to Brian Rea and Atley Kasky for the great Art Direction.

Day Thirty: iPaper

I did it, which is pretty amazing.

There aren't too many bad ones either.

To celebrate my 30 days of creativity

I have put the monster and nature pieces

on sale for....$30. I've also reduced the shipping.

I hope you have liked these pieces as much as I liked making them.

Day Twenty Nine: Mix Tape

Day Twenty Eight: Tall Drink Of Water

Day Twenty Seven: A Whale Of A Family

Day Twenty Six: Gobble Gobble

Twenty Five: Your Head's In The Clouds

Day Twenty Four: ShutR Camera

Day Twenty Three: I Scream, You Scream

Day Twenty Two: What A Trip

Day Twenty One: The Freezing Scene

Day Twenty: It's Going To Be OK

Someone asked me how big these things are.

They are all 2"x3.5" which is business card sized.