Geez 31, the peace issue

This issue of Geez magazine is about unrecognized peace activists. Publisher Aiden Enns came up with the cover idea, and I did the photo illustration. I also like the two multiple exposures featuring historical war images inside a couple of heads (one is mine, one is my partner's). And I had fun coming up with callouts for the "peace missile" spot illustration.

Geez 26, the Leisure issue

The latest issue of Geez magazine is all about leisure. It includes an in-depth story of what's it's like on a Christian cruise, our need to be entertained, and the quiet joys of everyday leisure. I did a few small spot illustrations to scatter around in the issue.

Geez 25, the utopia issue

The newest issue of Geez has some cool cover art by Eduardo Recife; this is one of my favorite covers, I think. I did some photos and illustrations for this issue, including a few where it looks like the photo has been torn away to reveal the drawing. Click on the spreads for a larger view.

Northwest Yearly Meeting 2012

This is a logotype/illustration I did for the upcoming Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends. The theme this year comes from Hebrews 4 verse 16: "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need." I used some ink roller images and hand-drawn lettering for this.

Luddite Pinterest board

A photo tour of my home office pinboard can be viewed on Facebook here.

A couple of food posters for George Fox

Here's a poster I designed for George Fox University's third annual Food Meet. Kind of an obvious treatment of the title, but oh, well. The toy truck has been the primary image on previous posters, so we retained it for this one as well. The Food Meet was fun and inspirational, by the way.



This is a poster for an upcoming faculty lecture at George Fox about the social implications of the local food movement. Should be good.

Geez 22, the contemplation issue

This is the first cover of Geez that I have illustrated; hard to believe, since I've done plenty of artwork for the inside pages over the years. Anyway, I really like how this turned out. Click any image to enlarge.




I did a whole bunch of little line art spot illustrations for the inside as well, mostly portraits.




I also used a decorative typeface called Restraint, designed by Marian Bantjes; Restraint has lots of beautiful connecting design elements, and is both fun and frustrating to use.

Just Moms cover

I took a different approach to this book cover design for Just Moms, an anthology of essays by moms about raising kids with the ethical values of peace, justice, simplicity, equality and love. I often try to come up with a single simple image to convey the essence of the book, but for this one I went with a more-is-more approach. I added additional words to the cover, and put in many details drawn from the stories themselves (toy guns, cats, bugs, the jack-o-lantern and the boy in pink shoes).

There's a Geez magazine connection to this book: several authors have had pieces in Geez, and one was even a cover model.

Northwest Yearly Meeting sessions image

This is a logo/illustration I did for the annual sessions of the Northwest Yearly Meeting, which has a theme this year of In Christ - One People, Growing Together; it'll appear on posters, etc.

Drawing for Geez

Working on a bunch of line art portraits for the upcoming issue of Geez magazine, the "inner work for outer change" issue.

Getting global with the George Fox Journal

Cover illustration I did for the new George Fox Journal. It's surprising to me that some people don't see the figures in the globe right away.

You can take a look at the whole issue here. (Click on the little magazine in the upper right to page through it.)

Newberg banners

Fall banners I designed that line the streets in downtown Newberg.

Crow secrets

Geez 19, the wild issue, features an excerpt from Crow Planet, a book by Lyanda Lynn Haupt, as well as factoids ("crow secrets") about crows scattered throughout the magazine. I did a few drawings of crows to accompany to excerpt and the crow secrets.

Conservation magazine cover

Conservation magazine used this Adam and Eve illustration I'd done for the George Fox Journal for their latest issue; it's for this story.

A Hamster is Missing

I did the illustration (but not the cover design) a while back for this book by Ed Spivey Jr., a very funny writer and art director of Sojourners magazine. For the second printing I got to do the cover design as well. Original is at the bottom, redesign at the top.

Off-seasons greetings

Illustration I did for the Indianapolis Indians baseball team's holiday card. Done for Lodge Design.

Cute cute little baby

Yes, I am capable of doing saccharine-sweet baby animal drawings.

Illustration illustration

Messing with the surface: some things appear to be laying on it, some cut into it. Drawn on elephant hide paper with ball point pen and white pencil.

Saturday sketchbook: love is...

Differing opinions on love; I did this a decade ago. Can you tell which one is me? Click to enlarge.

Fall George Fox Journal

I used a 16th century painting by Cranach the Elder (original shown below) as a starting point for this Journal cover. After some informal focus group testing on some older alumni at my dad's retirement home, it was deemed necessary to add some foliage to the original first couple's attire.

This turned out to be way harder and more time-consuming than I expected, and it turned out just okay. It took a little acrylic painting and a lot of digital retouching. Credit for the concept goes to my coworker Tamara.