Can you guess which one of these not gonna-win-any-awards projects is real in the categories of movies, books, radio and podcasts?
client: ESPN
Virginia Woolfe’s book on writing
client: The Wall Street Journal
“When she arrived in the US as a 10-year-old refugee, Dina Nayeri found it hard to fit in. But that all changed when she hatched a plan to get into Harvard – by becoming a taekwondo champion”
client: The Guardian Magazine
An alumni from the 60’s reflects on his college years.
client: Franklin and Marshall Magazine
Coming soon to a theater near you: bio flicks and docs on music’s biggest names.
client: Billboard
Portrait of Rory Stewart for the front page of Politico EU
“Three days of doubt and terror on Peak 9448”
client: Climbing
“Even athletes, politicians, and TV stars have found what works best when they need to recharge, focus, destress, or reckon with their emotions.”
client: Men’s Health
Covers for a comic reboot of the popular TV series.
client: Boom Studios/20th Century Fox
a history of the famous tower.
client: Honolulu Magazine
Cover to the summer issue about realty in the Hamptons.
client: Real Deal Magazine
Poster for the ESPN Films documentary about a quadriplegic coach who lead his team to a winning season.
client: ESPN Films
illustrations for a book project about the founding of the National Retired Teachers Association.
client: AARP
The Last Black Man In San Francisco, Apollo 11, Avengers: Endgame, Gloria Bell, Transit, Us, Amazing Grace, Everybody Knows and Booksmart round out the list.
client: Entertainment Weekly
A former waitress recounts her nightly ride to and from work on her bike.
client: Motorcyclist
Season 8 premiere
client: Entertainment Weekly
The true story of a Milwaukee bus driver that rescued a toddler on her route.
client: Milwaukee Magazine
“Can you guess which one of the sports-inspired, not-gonna-win-an-Oscar projects is real?”
*(spoiler alert: it’s The Reliant and The Art Of Self-Defense)
client: ESPN
With so many options for music distribution, artists can pick and choose.
client: Billboard
Annapurna’s Risky Biz Isn’t Paying Off
After financial setbacks, can founder Megan Ellison reverse course with fiscal discipline?
client: Variety
A former FBI hostage negotiator is now using his skills in the boardroom to teach CEOs the art of the deal.
client: GQ Germany
Season 4 premiere of Showtime’s Billions
client: Entertainment Weekly
“In the late ’80s, Ronnie Leibowitz robbed 21 banks in the suburbs of Tel Aviv for more than $400,000. He successfully evaded capture for nearly two years, relying on a simple disguise and a clever strategy. Local media crowned him Ofnobank, a combination of two Hebrew words for “motorcycle” and “bank,” and his exploits made him a national celebrity, even after he was identified and caught.”
- Jeffrey Jablansky
client: Motorcyclist
Matt Duss(advisor to Bernie Sanders) takes on the suffocating bipartisan Washington consensus about foreign policy.
Cover for The Nation
A New Comedy Central Show about 2 struggling siblings whose lives are upended when their younger brother becomes an internet star.
client: Entertainment Weekly
Edmund Burke’s “Reflections on the Revolution in France” (1790)
client: The Wall Street Journal
Series of articles reviewing the year in music—the revival and embrace of the album, #metoo and the music industry and pop stars passing the torch to the next generation.
client: Billboard
“From skyrocketing book sales to revamped plot lines, it’s hard to remember a time when the presidency had such a direct impact on entertainment.”
Featuring Alec Baldwin, Melissa McCarthy, Anthony Anderson and Colin Kaepernick
Client: Entertainment Weekly
2018 breakdown of the top ranked players in soccer. The illustrations were incorporated in an interactive website with video, stats and commentary on the FC’s best.
Click here to take a look: https://es.pn/2G4JflG
Jemaine Clement, Grayson Perry, John Cho, Peter Crouch, Chris Hemsworth, Rami Malek, Romesh Ranganathan, Derren Brown and Dominic West share their favorite libations.
client: Shortlist
“The unprecedented nature of the trench warfare in World War I created a communal experience. As the French and British soldiers suffered from being sitting targets, so too did the Germans. Erich Maria Remarque’s novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” may have been written by a German from a German infantryman’s perspective, but it captures all of the existential terror faced by the men who fought in the Great War.”
Masterpiece Section
client: The Wall Street Journal
Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne star as two parents who adopt three young children.
client: Entertainment Weekly
“Washington’s got more than 100 of them, and from half-acre grounds to cross-state trails, our state parks are a whole different kind of wild.”
-Allison Williams
client: Seattle Met
“Thucydides is rightly judged the first modern historian. What made him modern was his eschewing the role of the gods, of oracles, and of omens in the explanation of history. Let others trek out to Delphi or solemnly read the entrails of sacrificial animals to explain the moods of the gods and the unpredictable twists they gave to fate. Thucydides knew that history was mainly made by men, their struggles for power, their decisions, the events these decisions brought into being.
For Thucydides history was chiefly contemporary history. But then he lived during what he called “the greatest war of all,” the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. He hoped to write a book about it that would be “a possession for all time,” and he did exactly that.”
Masterpiece Column
client: The Wall Street Journal
13th century Icelandic literary work of love, violence and family.
Masterpiece Column
client: The Wall Street Journal
“Reading Virgil in college, the narrator of “My Ántonia” is struck by the lines “for I shall be the first, if I live, to bring the Muse into my country.” For the Roman poet, “my country” was rural Lombardy; for Cather, transplanted to New York, it was the prairies, cottonwoods, bleak winters, cornfields and homesteaders of 1880s Nebraska. Her first novel, set in patrician Boston and Savoy-Hotel London, she acknowledged a mistake. Turning to “the people and the country that are my own,” she made a second, truer beginning with “O Pioneers!”
“My Ántonia,” five years later, returns to the prairies. Its voice is that of middle-aged Jim Burden, recalling his Nebraska youth, especially the fascinating Bohemian girl Ántonia. The ward of prosperous grandparents, Jim becomes a town boy, goes off to university and Harvard Law, achieves big-city success, marries an heiress. Ántonia slogs on the farm to help her impoverished family, works as a hired girl in town, and later, seduced and deserted, returns to the farm. Years later, Jim revisits Nebraska to renew their friendship.”
- Robert Garnett
Masterpiece Column
client: The Wall Street Journal
“Graduate school. For those who have been through the experience, those two words can conjure up a roller coaster of memories and emotions. Because graduate school is such a unique and defining experience, we wanted to trace the journey from beginning to end. In the next five stories, we tackle the major milestones: deciding whether to go to graduate school, choosing a research program and adviser, navigating the ups and downs of the experience, coping with unanticipated changes, and finally, preparing for life after grad school ends.”
client: C&EN
Overheard anecdotes from the attendees of The National Fantasy Football Convention in Fort Worth, Texas.
client: ESPN
Vice’s Life Inside focuses on prison stories told by those that lived them.
client: Vice Media/The Marshall Project
*winner of the Communication Arts Award of Excellence/2019 Illustration Annual
“A court ordered guardianship nearly shattered the life of Kise Davis, 87, in a trend that now too often leads to isolation and exploitation of older Americans.” - Kenneth Miller
client: AARP
What Love Has to Do With It: How Culture, Technology and Romance Connect Migrant Workers to Home
client: Wired UK
“(H.L.)Mencken set out to describe and account for the differences, obvious and subtle, between English and American vocabulary, pronunciation, syntax, intonation, idiom, grammar, slang, euphemism and much more. The job entailed his becoming an etymologist, lexicographer and field worker generally among the native speakers in his own country. Along the way, Mencken, being Mencken, attacked British linguistic pedantry, stodginess and snobbish superiority, while never neglecting American pretentiousness, comic aspiration, and hospitality to foreign words—Spanish, German, Yiddish, Chinese prominent among them.”
Masterpiece Column
client: The Wall Street Journal
Two riders find a universal truth despite language barriers while broken down on a trip through Nova Scotia.
client: The Motorcyclist
National Park Rangers rescue 17 people after a boating accident on Lake Mead.
client: The Desert Companion
Cover Illustration for Newsweek
The founding fathers debated what “title” the leader of their new country would have. Washington liked to keep it simple.
client: The Wall Street Journal
Atlanta Magazine Cover:
Where Does The Beltline Go From Here?
Gentrification and Atlanta's beltline
Can't Miss Scenic Cities
client: USA Today Go Escape Magazine
I’ve always wanted to try landing(and then safely releasing) a black marlin or a blue fin tuna from a kayak. Popular Mechanics gave me the opportunity to illustrate this item from the top of my bucket list!
client: Popular Mechanics
The Navy SEALs allegedly left a man behind in Afghanistan. Did they try to block his Medal of Honor?
client: Newsweek
Princeton physicists Richard Feynman and John Wheeler
Client: WSJ Book Review
The innovative French-American composer Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse’s “Amériques”
client: The Wall Street Journal
Emmy Campaigning in Peak TV Era
Veteran awards consultants advise on how to break through the clutter
client: Variety
“The most widely read work written in Spanish since “Don Quixote,” “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” published 50 years ago, is set in an unnamed South American country—probably Colombia. The town of Macondo is home to six generations of the Buendía family, whose ancestors arrived in a Spanish galleon abandoned on a remote jungle tributary; when last seen, monkeys were running up and down its sails.” - Allen Barra
client: The Wall Street Journal
Portrait of Antonio Tajani, president of the European Parliament
client: Politico Europe
“Maria Contreras-Sweet is well known in L.A.’s business and civic circles. But she has never worked in entertainment. So when it was announced, last fall, that she would make a bid for the Weinstein Co., most people in Hollywood scratched their heads.”
client: Variety
client: The Prudential Center
Poster for Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers 40th Anniversary Tour
How social media can destroy relationships.
client: Marin Magazine
An in-depth look at the motorcycle jump from Terminator 2.
client: Motorcyclist
The 1932 novel by Joesph Roth that traces the gradual fall and ultimate demise of the Austro-Hapsburg Empire over the course of three generations of the Trotta family.
How to use blind hiring to improve workforce diversity.
client: HR Magazine
client: Marin Magazine
client: United Airlines
Portrait of writer John McPhee
client: The Wall Street Journal
illustration for Seven Fifty: "The new way for beverage professionals to search for wine, spirits, beer, and sake."
Truths and myths about millennials.
Cover and interior art for the Boston Globe Magazine.
Bullying in schools leads to absent students--that costs schools money.
client: Southern Poverty Law Center
American adventurers Luanne Freer, Dick Thompson, Robert White and Frederick D. Gregory
client: George Washington University
various pieces for Fortune Magazine
Bram Stoker's Dracula
client: The Wall Street Journal
client: Nature
Masterpiece review of James Hilton's novel, Lost Horizon.
client: The Wall Street Journal
client: The Wall Street Journal
Piece on the largest heist in the history of St. Louis.
client: St. Louis Magazine
client: Entertainment Weekly
client: Politico
The President's assault on the media bears all the hallmarks of a commandant waging asymmetrical combat against a larger force. Except now he's in charge. - Mark Feldstein
Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich
client: The Wall Street Journal
The future of Miami/cover to Buzzfeed Reader
client: Buzzfeed
Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro"
client: The Wall Street Journal
Dvorak's New World Symphony
client: The Wall Street Journal
The importance of keeping a close eye while riding.
client: Cycleworld
The story of Hawaii's 1st marathon
client: Hawaii Business
client: Popular Mechanics
Atlanta's new football club
client: Atlanta Magazine
La La Land sweeps the Golden Globes
Client: Entertainment Weekly
Campaign for Jack Link's Beef Jerky.
client: Jack Link's
Lebron James, robot killer
t-shirt printed with metallic ink.
Client: Nike
cover to the September issue of The Buzzfeed Reader
client: Buzzfeed
client: Entertainment Weekly
NY is Red Matchday Poster
client: NY Redbulls
Human Rights and Corporate Wrongs:
Exposing the Dark Side of Corporate Supply Chains
client: Risk Management
Wall mural for Scotland's favorite scotch
client: The Famous Grouse
Biography of a cleaner in the early 70's NYC.
Client: Entertainment Weekly
A Prius-owning, dog loving, octogenarian has been frequently sited driving aggressively in downtown Milwaukee.
Client: Milwaukee Magazine
photograph by Tim Sayer
Client: Popular Mechanics
Sigmund Freud
client: Die Zeit(Germany)
