I have been keeping a folder of my best rejected ideas for years. I have started finishing these pieces whenever I get a free afternoon just to see what could have been. This is an old one for a story about the rift between vegetarians and omnivores.
I have been keeping a folder of my best rejected ideas for years. I have started finishing these pieces whenever I get a free afternoon just to see what could have been. This was a reject for a review of a book that claimed America just ain’t what it used to be.
I have been keeping a folder of my best rejected ideas for years. I have started finishing these pieces whenever I get a free afternoon just to see what could have been. This was the runner-up for an article about the debate over legalizing gambling in Rhode Island.
Can’t stop with the 80s movies…
Just for fun…
Getting ready to ship this puppy off to Society of Illustrators for the editorial show next month.
I try to send a client holiday card every year and every year I try to make it a good one. This was a good one from 2008:
But on the way to coming up with a good one, you have to do things like this:
Here was another good one from 2010:
This year I started a little late and I wasn’t even sure if I would get them out in time. At first I wanted to do something design-y:
Then something about tattoos got into my head:
Then I took that one more step:
And I almost went with this one. But I didn’t. Here is the good one for 2012 that hit the mail yesterday:
Happy Holidays!
My buddy Matt is a creative director and he showed me some icons he was working on using the Isotype pictogram people from street signs. You’ll either know what these are or you won’t, but anyway this is what am I doing instead of working…
This was a poster I did for a benefit show this past weekend (and an homage to one of the greatest Esquire covers of all time)…thanks for looking!
You can read here about how I proposed a ghost map to New Jersey Monthly magazine a couple of years ago and they published it. I have since sent some other ideas without much luck but this year I had a plan - I asked if they knew what the Halloweeny-y topic was going to be for the October issue. WIth this insider information I sent these two sketches for a full-page and I was feeling pretty dang good about it:
And:
But, no luck. They decided they wanted to art it a little differently, something more narrative which, to be fair, they did ask if I wanted to do it but unfortunately it didn’t work out as far as scheduling. I am thinking about finishing one of these to use as a promo in October, maybe. And, there’s always next year…
