Created a photo illustration using a photo from Getty Images. Wanted to use a bold type treatment to grab the readers’ attention and liked the idea of adding dimension to the illustration by cutting most, but not all of the athlete to give the appearance that there was interaction between the two.

Created a quick illustration using images provided with the story. Since it was about a variety of movies I wanted to give a few of them play on the cover. This was done on deadline so I was only given a couple of hours to brainstorm and execute the illustration.

This was an illustration I did for Asbury Park Press that was shared across several of our New Jersey Papers. The story came with several file photos from past concerts, but I thought an illustration made more sense in this certain scenario. Played off the idea of a music record, along with a summer sunset on the Jersey shore.

I wanted to make sure all the subjects from the story were represented in the centerpiece, but all of the photos were fairly small, so I knew I couldn’t go with a large collage. So instead of using the images as the focal point, I decided to choose New Jersey as the focal point in the background, and giving the photos a similar photo treatment to give it a cohesive feel.

This story came over written as a typical news story, but I thought it would be better represented as an infographic, so I broke the story into paragraphs and gave each of those a different subhead and then came up with illustrations using Adobe Illustrator that would be a good representation for each point. I did this in one day’s time, on top of some other sections, but it was well worth the effort because the story was a lot more compelling laid out this way than it would have with just a stock image.

I was approached by the Arizona Republic to establish a logo for their new ‘Tuesday Triva’ segment that would be aired on both the local news channel and on their website.

An illustration I did with a mix of getty images and hand lettering I created.

This was another story that I thought was better handled as an infographic than as a typical news story. So I broke it up and added visuals for each snipet to help engage the reader

A spot illustration I did rather than use file photos of bee hives

The story was about a wine trail in Arizona, but the story didn’t contain a map. I figured readers in Reno wouldn’t be familiar with the locations listed in the article, so I decided to make the map the art and tried to incorporate the wine by using a water color background

A premium section designed for Arizona Republic in March of 2018.