Welcome to Armchair Travels, an invitation to travel around the world through the reportage illustration of Studio 1482. We have gathered art from our travels to share with you in the hopes that, while you can’t get out and see these places (yet), our experiences may bring some happiness and light to your day. Please check back often […]
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During the last two weeks, Black Lives Matter protests have erupted worldwide, condemning the murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless others. I am in total support, and would document the protestors marching through the streets of NYC, but due to the coronavirus, I can only join them in spirit. But there […]
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I’m excited to introduce Armchair Travels, an invitation to travel around the world through the reportage illustration of Studio 1482. We have gathered art from our travels to share with you, in the hopes that while you can’t get out and see these places (yet), our experiences may bring some happiness and light to your […]
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Very happy and honored to receive news that the City Explorer children’s game installation at the Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital received an Honor Award from the SEGD (Society of Experiential Design.) When Matthew McNerney, then creative director at Potion, called me to do some illustration work for a new project they were beginning, I had no […]
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Thought I would share some of my process in creating the Flying over the Brooklyn Bridge scene with Mental Canvas and Potion Design, for the NYU Hassenfeld City Explorer interactive children’s game installation. (Click the link at the bottom of this post to see a video of the final animated game.) To give you a sense of […]
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All across the United States today, students walked out of their classes from 10:00 to 10:17 am, to remember the 17 people who were killed at the Parkland shooting, and to protest gun violence in our country. These kids walked out of their school in my neighborhood of Jackson Heights. #endgunviolence #walkout #gunreformnow
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Happy to announce that I am in two exhibits this month! The first one, pictured above, is called Transcriptors: Illustration, Documentary and the Material at University for the Creative Arts, Farnham in the UK. The photo above shows one of my drawings from 9/11 at the entrance to the gallery; in the case are publications […]
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A few weeks ago I received a call to do an illustration for the Smithsonian magazine – featured in the “Ask Smithsonian” column. It’s a monthly column on the last page of the issue, and my illustration for the November “Q” column asks the question: “Union Station, Penn Station – why do so many major […]
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Last night I attended the panoramic performance of “the Scottish play”, Macbeth, put on by the New York Classical Theatre. They are giving free outdoor performances in Battery Park every evening at 7 pm through August 20th. (One of the perks of summers in NYC are these kinds of events.) It was a beautiful evening […]
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As I detailed in a previous post, (HERE) I recently had the distinctly unique opportunity to document a group of students from the University of Kentucky as they embarked on a two day “creative study tour” with their professor, Dr. Ryan Hargrove. During the course of the two days, the students met many creative professionals […]
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