The good people at Representation Co. in NYC asked me to illustrate their 2017 holiday card. The directives were: "Bodega, something New-Yorky, our names, and maybe impeach Trump or something..."
Towers Falling is a middle grade novel about 9/11, written by award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes. I was commissioned to illustrate both the front and back cover by Little, Brown and Company after their discovery of the Bodega Portraits series.
A couple of illustrations exploring the construction boom in downtown Brooklyn.
An illustrated audit of popular bodega sandwiches found on various sandwich-advertising collages in NYC
6-color, 24-page risograph zine. 5 x 6.5 inches, first edition of 50.
Available in the shop
An illustrated chart of edible perennials, created for Sophia Warsh during her residency at the 2017 Agrikultura Triennal, Sweden. A field botanist and artist, Sophia led identification excursions and mapping projects of some of her fellow residents' installations. Cluster was a garden project by Mary Mattingly, created to highlight the edible perennial plants found on the site and in the region.
I illustrated this chart as a contribution to Sophia's overall projects at Agrikultura.
Some favorite pot-luck recipes, and how to make them.
As New York City develops, mom-and-pop shops are rapidly disappearing - replaced by homogenized signage and polished graphics. This series memorializes the ubiquitous bodega - a convenience store that also serves as a community meeting place - and explores their unique visual personalities.
Select prints available in the shop.
An illustrated book for kids about a bunch of cats stuck inside their apartments on a rainy day.
Droidcon NYC is an annual conference for Android developers, organized by Touchlab. For their 2015 event, I created a set of modular visuals that drew upon existing vernacular within the Android community: Flat, bright colors and simple, geometric shapes, including elements of Google’s Material Design principles – customized to reflect the people and icons of New York City.
By building upon a familiar style, we were able to easily connect with and engage Android developers from all over the world, yet surprise them with unexpected details.
I lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn from 1997-2003, then kept a studio there from 2005-2007. During that time, the neighborhood was rezoned and the entire landscape began to change very rapidly. Soon after, I moved to Bedford Stuyvesant and watched as eminent domain forced a major change in downtown Brooklyn. This series of drawings explore the initial phase of transformation in both neighborhoods.
Illustrations for a book celebrating seasonal produce. Each season highlights fruits and vegetables available at farmer's markets on the east coast through illustrations, personal notes, and simple recipes.
An avid composter and one-time restaurateur, I didn’t have to think twice when asked if I’d like to create the visual assets for a Zero Waste Food conference hosted by the Institute of Culinary Education (ICE) and The New School.
From the start, the organizers were keen on something hand-drawn, unconventional, and urban-focused.
The resulting imagery was a series of illustrations that could be combined and reconfigured to suit the format: from a horizontal web banner to a vertical 7-foot poster and everything in between. The components also needed to be malleable enough to be used by other in-house and student designers at both schools.
Check out the website here.
Commissioned mural illustration for Calexico, a Cal-Mex restaurant. This was installed in their Greenpoint, Brooklyn location. Incidentally, the file was so large it almost broke my computer.
