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New logo for QED, Chicago’s Youth Mathematics Symposium
Last year, we designed a logo for the Payton Math Circle, run by Chicago’s much-lauded public high school, Walter Payton College Prep. Following the success of that mark, we were asked to create another logo for Payton Prep’s mathematics educator Paul Karafiol, recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching. This…
Kabuki-style Masks
Long before my transformation into a graphic designer, I studied theatre. Even now, I often approach the page and screen as a stage, and manipulate typography like actors. Jonathan Hoefler, designer of typefaces like Gotham and Knockout, once said that typography was the clothes that words wear. What a spectacular but simple way of looking…
Empiricist League Searches for E.T.
Our fourth poster for the Empiricist League aims at the stars for the latest in their series of science talks in bars. Now in Brooklyn, one of the epicenters of the science + hipster + nerd + alcohol cultural trend. The Empiricist League events feature expert thinkers in unpretentious, relaxed surroundings. This time, the theme…
More Rumpus! Illustration for Kristen Forbes’ “Dream Girl”
The Rumpus is my favorite literary spot on the Interwebs. Stephen Elliot runs an excellent ship over there. This piece, by writer Kristen Forbes, is right at home there and I was happy to illustrate it.
Illustration for Rachel Lehmann-Haupt in The Rumpus
Some of the most interesting writing on the interwebs lives at The Rumpus. I’ve created an illustration to accompany this piece by author Rachel Lehmann-Haupt. I’ve done a handful of others over the past few years.
Empiricist League event #3
The Empiricist League’s science-y goodness continues with The Bionic Science of Human Enhancement.
Rumors poster
I’ve been enjoying the opportunity to work with Emily Bolton Ditkovski, Director of the theatre program at the Williston-Northampton school. It was her production of Fiddler on the Roof that drove me to break out the watercolors for the first time in eons. Now I’m following up with the poster for Neil Simon’s Rumors, which…
Wandermonster returns: Fourth Grade!
Our long-running experiment / collaboration Wandermonster bounds into its fifth year. Every school day, I send my son off with something extra in his lunch box, next to the apple slices and juice box: a Lunch Post. It’s a post it note with half of a drawing and half of a caption. He (usually) finishes…
The Antidote at Edmonton Fringe
Diana Kolpak and her theatre company Whetstone are bringing their latest production, The Antidote, to the Edmonton Fringe. It uses—and transforms—traditional clown techniques as avant-garde performance tools. Coulrophobes don’t need to be afraid; the big themes of the script and sheer artistry of the performers should keep you in your seat. We designed the poster…
Empiricist League
I share the gut-fluttering awe for big-R Reality that Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson excel at passing on. My theme song is A Glorious Dawn. It’s so important to rescue science from the desert the media has banished it to, ignored, demeaned, drained of passion. In the last few years, groups like the Secret…