A playlist and a painting for getting through it.
Take Care started the week after the 2016 election — a self-initiated series of playlists, each with a new airbrushed cover, made to hand someone (usually me) something soft to hold. It kept going. The covers were selected for American Illustration.
Ten album covers nobody asked me to redraw.
Every year I pick ten records I love and redesign the sleeve — a self-set brief with a hard count and a soft rulebook. It’s the fastest way I know to try on ten different ways of drawing in a row.
Flyers for a night I also DJ.
Magic Ways, first Fridays, Melody Lounge in Chinatown. I make the flyer, then I show up and play the records. Vertical integration.
The one that moves.
A New Year’s Eve moment for Facebook: I drew the whole cast — the wordmark itself, in top hats — and Animade brought it to life. Eleven looping seconds of chrome creatures counting down to 2022.
The work with an art director attached.
Illustration and hand-lettering for the press — sad obsolete gadgets, overwhelmed houseplants, a whole finance startup that just wants you to stop doing stupid stuff. Same hand, someone else’s headline.
Things that only exist because I printed them.
A riso travel zine about Tokyo street style. A cassette that’s really just an excuse for a cover. The word VOTE, blown up until it’s uncomfortable. Objects with no reason to exist except that I wanted them to.
Fun takes intention, and connection takes care. If anything here made you feel something, consider the job done.
