Fat France
| January 17th, 2012
I had far too much fun drawing fat ankles for this week’s Businessweek. Inspired by every episode of Biggest Loser
Archive for the Illustration Category
$ $ $ G R E A T C H A R T 4 U !!! $ $ $
| December 16th, 2011
A Nigerian prince asked me to post this graphic I worked on this week with Karen Weiss and Kenton Powell. Please send him money. He will pay you back, I promise.
Eat My Peach
| November 29th, 2011
Have you seen McSweeney’s latest and greatest new magazine, Lucky Peach? Available at every bougie cheese boutique or fancy shmancy kitchen appliance store in Brooklyn, Lucky Peach has swiftly became one of my favorite new magazines. Sure, I don’t cook but I do eat. Sometimes, I even read.
Issue #2 includes stickers designed by Tucker Nichols, Laura Park, Wesley Allsbrook, Daniel Krall and a bunch of others… oh and me. Buy the magazine and use the stickers to fraud your local grocer.
Thanks Walter Green for including me in the series!
Dead Sexy
| November 14th, 2011
Issue 3 of Fray Magazine by Derek Powzek has just been published on the internets. This time the theme is “Sex and Death”.
I made this print for Fray not long after Anna Nicole Smith’s sudden death. It’s no 27 Club but there are three dozen Playboy Playmates that have died of unnatural causes including Marilyn Monroe (Miss December 1953), Jayne Mansfield (Miss February 1955), Dorothy Stratten (Miss August 1979), and of course Anna Nicole Smith (Miss May 1992).
Buy an issue (it’s the centerfold!) here.
And thanks Mark Frauenfelder for blogging about it on Boing Boing.
How Do You Like Them Apples?
| October 14th, 2011
This week we did another Steve Jobs (RIP) cover but this time about the soul of Apple. I was on vacation but Richard asked me to do a few passes for the cover– how could I resist? I sent over a pdf of about 8 bad ideas, went for a walk and realized– DUH why didn’t I think of an apple CORE? So, quickly shuffled back home and sent him a ninth idea.
He liked it.
Spend a few more hours refining the idea with Rob Vargas (A few revisions below since I know you guys LOVE process shots)
This issue will be on Newstands next Tuesday. If you haven’t picked up our Steve Jobs memorial issue you’re an idiot. Do it before it is exclusively available on ebay for a stupid amount of money.
Optical Illusions
| October 8th, 2011
I forgot to post this!
Chronicle Books is publishing a visual anthology called The Art of Science. Julia Rothman, who can be described as part pattern maker part art star and part book obssessed is the editor of this new title.
The concept was to pair a scientist with an artist to answer a myserious question. I was assigned “Why do we fall for optical illusions?”
I’m not sure when the book comes but by the look of what other contributors have posted it should be a pretty excellent collection.
How to Network
| September 22nd, 2011
The How To issue of BusinessWeek is a good issue. A really good issue. Maybe even a great issue.
A collection of solutions and expertise from THE EXPERTS about how to decant wine with a blender (by Nathan Myhrvold), how to interview someone (by Errol Morris), how to mentor (by Andy Grove)…
and (above) how to network (by Dennis Crowley). This graphic is TOTALLY FACTUAL AND BASED ON TRUE STORIES, YES? It’s the back page of the issue and I love the back page of magazines. It’s first thing I flip to after the cover so I was excited to get a chance to have at it.
As always, the cover is impossibly great and weird.
Can You Hear Me Now? No? That’s because I’m Talking on a Rock.
| September 4th, 2011
Since I left the Times six months ago my buddy Josh Cochran has swooped in and occasionally guest art directs the Op-Ed pages. In addition to Aviva (AD) and Alexandra’s (Asst. AD) big push to introduce new illustrators to the page Josh has also been giving new artists a chance. People that don’t appear in the editorial world very often… like, my mom and I.
I’ve worked with Josh a lot before but our roles in the past have always been reversed. He has a certain… how do I put it… pomo-illustrator-as-designer-style that works a little something like this (to protect our identities I have changed the names):
Juan Cochran: “It’s a story about late adopters to technology.”
Jennifer Kardashian: “Here is a rock-phone.”
Juan Cochran: “I like it. Let’s do it.”
Inspired by every brick phone I’ve trudged around with since high school, Encino man, and of course banana phone.
Strange Map
| August 25th, 2011
If I had to pick out one spread in the popularity issue that was my favorite it would be like choosing my favorite child. Okay, not really. It’d probably be this map because it’s so stupid. Greece is crying. Taiwan is skateboarding. Pakistan is downing pills. Argentina is hitting a Chinese pinata…
Each country is illustrated by a fad related to the residents. Brazil (below) loves butts and United Kingdom (also below) can’t get enough of the Middleton sisters.
Head nod to childhood hero Roger Hargreaves:
With Apologies to Art History
| June 23rd, 2011
+ 
+ 
=
