PEN Canada

I had the pleasure of bring asked to contribute a couple of illustrations to the PEN Canada Annual Report a couple of years ago - hands down one of the most fulfilling projects I've ever had the opportunity to work on.
The goal of this annual report was to bring attention to the plight of a handful of writers around the world who had been wrongly and often cruelly punished for what we here in the US consider to be our wholly entitled first amendment rights. Every contributing illustrator was asked to illustrate one of the persecuted writers. That illustration would then also be used as a postcard that could be torn out of the book and mailed to the offending (to put it mildly) governments as a form of protest/petition to free or pardon said writers.
As an added bonus, Gary Beelik of Soapbox Design was an absolute pleasure to work with on this project and the report looks just amazing. Some of my favorite tearsheets to date!
So my reason for bringing up this project now is that it appears to have finally made it online as a downloadable pdf. Though this report was put out almost two years ago, I'm sure it most definately can't hurt to print out the postcards and mail them nonetheless.
You can find the report HERE. Now get to it!

From the Archives...

Digging through my files I stumbled across this small spot I did last spring for Jodi Rossi at Hadassah.

Pratt

I'll be at Pratt tommorrow and wedsday (1/20 & 1/21) from 9:30-12, speaking with Rudy Gutierrez's two senior classes. Stop by and say hi!

MyMidwest Tearsheets & More

Beautiful tearsheets for an assn I did awhile back for Shane Luitjens at MyMidwest.

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In other news, read the recent interview that I did with Josh Cochran for Lost At E Minor. You can read it in full on the WFOF blog HERE!

tony doodles

Some Recent Personal Work

Here's to 09!

Here's to looking on the bright side in 09! Though this image created for the wonderful Alese Beckett at 5280 Magazine may seem to contradict that notion...Here's to a fantastic 09!

Holiday Season's In Swing!

My homage to the best christmas movie ever.

Kiehl's Holiday Display

I was beside myself when Kiehl's asked me to contribute some work for their annual holiday display--I am a devout fan of their products to day the least! Unfortunately they only used my shampoo bottle, but I really have no complaints! I saw the display for myself the other day and it looks wonderful, the whole store looks merry and festive. Good thing I had no money on me at the time cause I really could've done some damage.....

Get Yer Holiday Cards Here!

Now that it's about that time of year again, we're all in need of some good non-denominational holiday cards to send out to all our friends & loved ones, no? I still have some left over from last years batch which you can pick up HERE!

Las Vegas City Life

For Maureen Adamo over at Las Vegas City Life. For a story about a writer putting out the follow up to his wildly successful debut novel and finding himself imbued with a rockstar status of sorts. The AD wanted something with a sort of Beatlemania feel to it which I had soooo much fun with.....
*Luckily the day I got this assn I was having some friends over for dinner...I got them drunk and made them pose for reference (thank you Janice, Lucas & Jed). Can you spot the rather unflattering self portrait?

How To Use Your Intern

Another fun project from one of my favorite AD's, Shane Luitjens for MyMidwest. Full page (there will be text on this page hence all the open space) & spots for 'How to Properly Utilize Your Intern.'

A Little Halloween Spirit

What's Halloween without a black cat! This will likely get cut up in the near future and become part of a larger piece...

And an awesome little animated version courtesy of Jashar!

Dan James Interview!

Another exciting interview for Lost At E Minor! Dan is one hell of an entertaining interview. Read it HERE!

the making of a pizza cookie

last year it was the burger cake for jashar's b-day. this year, pizza cookie! emily, jed & i spent the entire afternoon yesterday cutting out marshmellow pepperoni, onions, peppers and mushrooms....looks a bit like play doh pizza but nevertheless well worth it i'd say!

ASCA School Counselor

I've been working on this here project for the better part of the past couple of weeks. I feel it was well worth it indeed! The AD, Monica Bussolati of Bussolati Design was an absolute pleasure to work with, just letting me do my thing.
For the cover concept, I had several ideas but the one I was really attached to was using the different types of U's to show different types of schools....So I hashed it out every which way I could think of. The first interior image below actually started out as a concept for the cover that was tossed out but happily made a comeback as an interior image.


Interior Illo 1 - Finding a College That's the Right Fit...(sorry Pratt, my apologies for the traitorous RISD logo!!)


Interior Illo 2 - Career Exploration Leading to Higher Graduation Rates

WFOF Has a New Look!

Welcome Friend or Foe has a happening new look! Courtesy of the amazing and duly patient Emily Eibel. New Header courtesy of the incredible Andrew Degraff.

belonging

For Judith at Na'amat. About a woman with roots all around the the world, wondering, where is home?

SPD Pub Crawl

I helped out with the SPD Pub Crawl yesterday. Such a great time! I took a group of students to visit the Fader and Conde Nast Portfolio where we were treated to a fantastic presentation by the ubiquitous Robert Priest. Amazing. I think the students really learned a lot and I would highly recommend any students joining in when the next Pub Crawl rolls around. Though this tour is generally geared towards graphic designers, I believe it certainly can't hurt for an aspiring illustrator to see what goes on behind the scenes!

more of the ol' sketchbook

I just put together this sketchbook medley for the WFOF blog. Though I've posted several of these doodles before, there are some news ones here as well I thought might be worth sharing.