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Self-generated image - another variation on the seated figure theme (click for enlargements).

I was contacted by Peggy from Tufts University in Boston requesting a homepage image that captures the work of the university-based research centre. Tufts are one of the largest research centers in the world studying healthy aging and its relationship to nutrition and physical activity. The brief was to produce a design that included the various elements involved in the research and that sat well with their established website style.



Above is my initial submission (click for enlargement) that I produced after the sketch below had been accepted and approved. Usually I adhere pretty religiously to an accepted sketch but in this case things started to change when working on the artwork and I felt that the re-arranged elements just had more visual interest.



As it turns out the client preferred the original design, so I worked up the revised version below. Colours were then shifted more towards a blue which synched better with the website than the coral tones above.

Experimenting with the combination of fashion and floral elements, focussing on form as opposed to the decoration/design of fabric.

Combining ideas of biology and botany.

Cori at Common Ground magazine called with an assignment based on how AI is being used in community associations. A cover and full page illustration were required.
Artificial intelligence is more reality than science fiction these days but no one is quite sure how to harness the technology. Community association boards and managers have a lot of questions and angst over it. Others believe it will improve productivity. How best to proceed?
I was given the working title “An AI Odyssey” intended to play off of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Imagined Sculptures: Topcoat. Combining sculptural forms with elements of fashion/clothing and how it may look in a speculative magazine spread.

I was contacted by Jennifer at Harvard Magazine requesting an illustration for a piece that focused on lyme disease and how it affects the body. Lyme is one of the fastest-growing infectious diseases in the United States. In this case the client already had a concept in mind, the target on a torso, so it was a really a case of how best to realise it.

Imagined Sculptures: Topcoat. Combining sculptural forms with elements of fashion/clothing and how it may look in a speculative magazine spread.

Leslie contacted me with a cover assignment for the Milken Institute Review. It was to centre around the uphill battle to modernize America's electricity grid. The client was committed to the idea of a snapped (and live) electrical cable spitting sparks.

Re-inventing vintage book pages.