February 21, 2010
Title: Act I, Scene I: The Cellphone Must Not Go On
Client: The New York Times
Description: This illustration ran in The New York Times on Sunday, February 21, 2010. The article (written by Steven McElroy ) describes various strategies that theater directors are employing to try and curb the persistent problem of audience members' cellphones ringing during performances.

October 25, 2009
Title: Flunking Out at the Food Co-op
Client: The New York Times
Description: This illustration ran in The New York Times on October 25th on the cover of the Metro section (New York edition). The essay by Alana Joblin Ain describes her experience being suspended from shopping at the Park Slope Food Co-op in Brooklyn, NY after falling behind on her required work requirement. The Co-op has a reputation for high quality local organic foods, at great prices. However the author of this essay highlights some of the difficulties in keeping up your end of the membership bargain, and the shameful consequences that follow. See the accompanying spot illustrations here.

October 25, 2009
Title: Flunking Out at the Food Co-op (Spots)
Client: The New York Times
Description: These illustrations ran in The New York Times on October 25th on the cover story for the Metro section (New York edition). The essay by Alana Joblin Ain describes her experience being suspended from shopping at the Park Slope Food Co-op in Brooklyn, NY after falling behind on her required work requirement. The Co-op has a reputation for high quality local organic foods, at great prices. However the author of this essay highlights some of the difficulties in keeping up your end of the membership bargain, and the shameful consequences that follow. These spots capture some of the scenes around the co-op, and an anecdote mentioned the essay. See the cover image here.

May 3, 2009
Title: On This Cooking Challenge, Reality Bites
Client: The New York Times
Description: Here's an illo for The New York Times that I busted out last week for their Sunday regional section. Since I recently became a huge fan of "Top Chef", I was excited to illustrate Jodi Rudoren's fun essay on how there ought to be a "Home Cooks" edition of the popular cooking show. Quickfire and elimination challenges that would make the TV contestants wither go on every day in a house full of hungry family members. Note the Dad playing the part of the poor-man's Tom Colicchio at the dinner table. Art direction by the always-pleasant Richard Weigand.

December 27, 2008
Title: Together, as Each Party Ends and Each Year Begins
Client: The New York Times
Description: As another new year begins, a grandmother reflects upon her past New Years Eves and how they changed as her family grew.

October 3, 2008
Title: Lost, and Found
Client: The New York Times
Description: This is an illo for The New York Times' "The City" section. Eric Anthamatten's essay is about the frequent and common disorientation than every New Yorker has felt when emerging from the subway, perhaps at an unfamiliar station, and not being able to situate themselves on the city grid. Art direction by Richard Weigand.

August 23, 2008
Title: A Boy in the Bullpen
Client: The New York Times
Description: This is a piece I did for The New York Times this week. It is running in Sunday's "The City" section (of the New York edition). The author Thomas R. Pryor waxes nostalgic about a day in 1961 when his father and uncles took him to see the Yankees play the Red Sox. One of his uncles knew Luis Arroyo, the pitcher, and the author got lifted over the fence to hang out in the bullpen, and was awestruck by the pinstriped giants. Art direction by the always agreeable Richard Weigand.

December 16, 2006
Title: Stealing a Bike, Then Backpedaling
Client: The New York Times
Description: This article for The New York Times was about a family's unusual encounter with a bike thief. The kid in the story had his bike stolen, and he had a prime suspect in mind. When the victim's father showed up at the suspect's house to confront his family with the accusation, they denied it, and the family was forced to give up (a similar thing happened to me as a kid!). Amazingly, more than a year later, the suspected thief shows up at their door with an older man an envelope full of money, and the kid apologizes for stealing the bike. It's a pretty awkward moment for both adults and certainly for the kids themselves. I felt this was a moment where both kids lose some degree of their innocence, and deal with some tough stuff for the first time.

September 28, 2006
Title: Who’s Older, You or Your Body?
Client: The New York Times
Description: An illustration for The New York Times Thursday Styles section dealing with the concept of "body age". Using a series of criteria, fitness trainers can give you a measure of what your body's virtual age is, which may or may not be different from your actual age. It is described in the story as being a powerful motivator for people who want to stay a bit ahead of nature.

September 22, 2006
Title: Suburban Heart of Darkness
Client: The New York Times
Description: This illo ran in The New York Times on September 24th, 2006. The story was about how most people's garages are dark, scary places full of the tools of yard work and labor, rarely resembling the brightly light neat workspaces shown in catalogs.

July 27, 2006
Title: Spouse Courtesy of Mom the Matchmaker
Client: The New York Times
Description: This ran in the Thursday Styles section of The New York Times. The story is about how today's young singles are finding frustration in their endless searches for a mate online, and turning to the age-old tradition of letting their parents help find them a match.

June 7, 2006
Title: A Life Between Jobs
Client: The New York Times
Description: This ran in The New York Times' Thursday Styles section. The story was about how younger workers in their 20's and 30's are often passing on the standard two week vacations, in favor of longer vacations, in-between their frequent job-hopping.

April 19, 2006
Title: Women and A.C.L. Injuries
Client: The New York Times
Description: This illustration for The New York Times ran with a story discussing why women are much more likely to suffer A.C.L. (anterior cruciate ligament) knee injuries. One of the preventive therapies discussed involves training women how to jump and move their bodies differently, to avoid the most common types of injuries. Click here to see a larger version of the image.

February 14, 2006
Title: Science: Auditory Illusions
Client: The New York Times
Description: This illustration was for a story written by a Parkinson's patient, who suffers from "audio illusions" as a side effect of his medication. A woman laughing too loud in a restaurant is transformed into a neighing horse, and a man with a booming voice becomes a circus ringleader with a megaphone.

March 14, 2004
Title: To Russia With 2 Adolescents
Client: The New York Times
Description: This ran in The New York Times' Sunday Travel section on March 14, 2004. The author takes his two teenage sons to Russia for a summer vacation in hopes of widening their view of the world, but they insist on eating at Pizza Hut.

February 11, 2003
Title: Dietary Concerns for Kids at Sleepaway Camp
Client: The New York Times
Description: This story for Science Times section, discussed how when picking out sleepaway camps for their children, parents are making sure the camp can accomodate thier special dietary and medical needs.

December 1, 2002
Title: Circuits: Learning a Language by Eavesdropping
Client: The New York Times
Description: This story for The New York Times Circuits section described how people learning a foreign language are often eavesdropping on foreign online chat forums in pursuit of authentic dialogue. This illustration was also picked up for the International Herald Tribune.

November 1, 2002
Title: Circuits
Client: The New York Times
Description: This artwork ran with a story in The New York Times Circuits section, which discussed new approaches in thinking about file systems on computers. Specifically, the article proposed throwing out the filing cabinet model where files are stored as documents in folders.

November 1, 2002
Title: Sunday Styles
Client: The New York Times
Description: This story for The New York Times Sunday Styles' cover, discussed the way that pop culture and the media has empowered young teenage girls to be more sexually aggressive than they have been in the past, for better or worse. It ran in Novermber 2002.

October 3, 2002
Title: Circuits
Client: The New York Times
Description: The Web Loves Babies, Especially at 4 in the Morning was the headline for this story which ran in The New York Times' Circuits section on October 3, 2002. The piece talks about how new parents are finding a helpful online community offering help at all hours.

April 21, 2002
Title: The Style of No-Style
Client: The New York Times
Description: This ran in The New York Times' Sunday Styles section on April 21/2002. The story is about a man who suddenly realizes that he does have a style of dress...he wears nice school clothes. The items crossed out are examples of things that are not nice.

April 15, 2001
Title: When Nowhere is the Place To Be
Client: The New York Times
Description: This illustration appeared in The New York Times on April 15, 2001 in the Travel section. The story is about how a family makes the best out of a rainy week in the Poconos. They discover that not having any restaurants or distractions for miles is a blessing in disguise. This is directly inspired by some quality rainy-day time up at Indian Lake in the Adirondacks with my wife's huge family.

March 8, 2001
Title: Circuits
Client: The New York Times
Description: This illustration appeared in The New York Times on Thursday March 8, 2001 in the Circuits section. The article described intelligent ergonomic software which reminds you when to take a break, and also instructs you how to exercise your wrists and neck to avoid repetetive stress injury.

October 1, 2000
Title: Pumpkin Recipes
Client: The New York Times
Description: This illustration appeared in The New York Times in Ocotber 2000. The articles discussed the variety of recipes pumpkins can be used in.

June 4, 2000
Title: Discovering America, In 50 Steps
Client: The New York Times
Description: This illustration appeared in The New York Times on Sunday June 4, 2000 in the Travel section. The articleby W.D. Wetherell describes how 'bagging' all 50 states has become the ultimate American travel goal.

March 1, 2000
Title: Wine Talk
Client: The New York Times
Description: This illustration appeared in The New York Times on March 1, 2000 in the Dining Out section. The article discusses the delicacies of wine ettiquette.

January 30, 2000
Title: Why New Yorkers Are Weather Wimps
Client: The New York Times
Description: This illustration appeared in The New York Times on January 30/2000 in The City section. The articleby fellow Brooklynite David Kirby is about the origins of New Yorkers' dislike for unpredictable winter weather.

January 16, 2000
Title: Bugged
Client: The New York Times
Description: This story was about a mother recalling her struggle to rid herself and her children of lice. The prescribed medicine, malathion is also used to exterminate mosquitos by helicopter in the New York City area.

December 26, 1999
Title: Patents
Client: The New York Times
Description: This ran in The New York Times on December 26, 1999. The article was about how internet companies are finding patents to be very useful in cornering the market on their services. It also spoke about a number of odd things that have patents, including a certain way to hold a golf club, etc.

December 19, 1999
Title: Y2K Hooray / Y2K No Way
Client: The New York Times
Description: This ran in the New York Times on December 19, 1999. It was an article about how New Yorkers were planning to spend New Year's Eve 2000.

December 5, 1999
Title: On Tour in the Republic of Letters
Client: The New York Times
Description: This illustration appeared in The New York Times on December 5, 1999 in the Travel section. The article by Larry Wolff, recalls a conference he attended in Dublin, where he was accidentily locked in a chamber of Dublin Castle with a colleague for a few moments, and how they found themselves eerily surrounded by the images of the figures they study.

November 7, 1999
Title: When New York is on the End of the Line
Client: The New York Times
Description: "Cold Calling Telemarketers Get Combat Pay for Facing the City". This illustration appeared in The New York Times on November 7, 1999 in "The City" section.The article by Corey Kilgannon, is about how New York is the telemarketer's nightmare for placing cold calls. 5" x 10".Graphite and goucahe on paper.

February 1, 1999
Title: Snapshot Extras
Client: The New York Times
Description: These illustrations appeared in The NewYork Times in February 1999. The story, which ran in the SundayTravel Essay section of the paper, is about the people inthe background of your favorite snapshots from traveling.Who are they, and what were they doing?

January 3, 1999
Title: God Save Greenwich Village
Client: The New York Times
Description: This illustration ran in the New York Times on January 3, 1999 in the Sunday Styles section. The article, God Save Greenwich Village by Bob Morris is about how Greenwich Village is becoming very British. 15 x 9.5 Gouache on paper.

November 1, 1998
Title: An Apple for the Miracle Worker
Client: The New York Times
Description: This illustration appeared in The New York Times on November 1, 1998 in the Education Life section. The article by Francine Prose, is about dedicated teachers, who while they may be unconventional or eccentric, still have a positive impact on their students. 5" x 10".Graphite and goucahe on paper.

September 13, 1998
Title: Poker Face To Go
Client: The New York Times
Description: This illustration appeared in the Sunday Styles section of the New York Times on September 13, 1998. The story by Dany Levy is about how businessmen are starting to get Botox injections, derived from botulism toxins, to temporarily paralyze portions of their facial muscles. The result is a 'permanent poker face' which supposedly gives them an edge in business deals. Very strange.

August 9, 1998
Title: Clinton Visits The Hamptons
Client: The New York Times
Description: This illustration appeared in The New York Times on August 9, 1998 in the Sunday Styles section. The article is about the recent visit of President Clinton to the Hamptons, in Long Island, NY. The author noted how the President's very presence transformed the usually cold, callous, elite vacationers into a crowd of giggling, excited children.

July 13, 1998
Title: Why Are So Few Plastic Surgeons Women?
Client: The New York Times
Description: This illustration ran in the New York Times on July 12, 1998 in the Sunday Styles section. This is my first illustration for The New York Times...16 x 10.5. Gouache and watercolor on board.