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.