Editorial Illustration

Lumen Questions

Seattle Met

Section opener for Seattle Met’s Winter 2026/27 Currents feature on the incoming ownership of the Super Bowl–winning Seahawks. A Seahawks player stands monument-like atop a faceted Lumen Field, flanked by a perched osprey and the Space Needle, as celebration sparkles drift through a skyline of swirling Pacific Northwest clouds. Rendered in a palette of action green, steel gray and deep navy, the piece captures a city at its peak, and the question of what comes next.

The Surveillance Issue

MIT Technology Review

A self-initiated cover concept for MIT Technology Review’s surveillance theme. The piece reimagines Big Tech as a noir skyline: corporate towers loom over the city while a monolithic camera sweeps the street below with a red search beam. Caught in the light, a lone figure on a payphone becomes a stand-in for all of us: watched, tracked, and trying to stay a step ahead.

The art deco geometry and film-noir lighting tie a very current anxiety to the visual language of classic spy and detective stories. The deep blues and a single red accent keep the focus on the moment of exposure.

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Superheavies

Scientific America

Superheavy elements are synthetic atoms at the extreme edge of the periodic table — so unstable they exist for mere fractions of a second before decaying. Created by smashing lighter atoms together in particle accelerators at near-light speed, these extreme atoms contain over 100 different complex subatomic configurations pushing the known boundaries of physics and chemistry. Scientists believe a theoretical "island of stability" exists further along the periodic table — a zone where superheavy elements might actually hold together long enough to study. The race to get there is one of the most expensive and obsessive pursuits in modern science. Nobody knows what these elements can do. That's exactly why they're chasing them

Bormio in Fiamme | Milano Cortina 2026

Self-initiated editorial motion piece. A vintage Italian ski poster with a warning built in. A downhill racer in the green, white and red of the tricolore tucks down the Bormio course, but the flames streaming off him come from a swelling sun, and the snow beneath him is pumped out by snowmakers. The headline, “Lo sci a Bormio è in Fiamme!?!” (skiing in Bormio is on fire), turns poster bravado into a question about what a warming planet means for the Winter Games. Designed in Illustrator and animated in After Effects.

Iran’s Master Key

Editorial illustration on Iran’s grip over the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow passage that much of the world’s oil moves through. A hand turns a pipeline valve like a key, an Iran-shaped keychain dangling from it, as a tanker flying China’s flag slips through the strait past a refinery. Fighter jets and missile launchers crowd the desert ridges overhead. A compass rose and swirling Deco clouds frame the scene in sun-bleached gold and Gulf blue, casting energy geopolitics as a single, very precarious lock.

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Our Planet Our Health

Hopkins Bloomberg | Public Health

The path back to a blue planet runs through the choices we make on land. Solar energy is now the cheapest electricity in human history — and it's still being underbuilt. Recycling systems that actually work, circular economies that design waste out of the equation entirely, buildings that generate their own power, communities that consume what they produce — these aren't distant ideas. They exist. The technology is solved. What remains is the will to scale it. Every solar panel installed is a vote for the planet we started with. Every material reclaimed from a landfill is a small act of restoration. The blue didn't disappear overnight. It won't come back overnight either. But it comes back one decision at a time.

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Hungriest Politicians

Politico

Every election cycle produces them — politicians who have confused visibility with leadership. They don't hunger for policy. They hunger for the frame. The cable hit, the viral moment, the controversy that keeps the notifications coming. In 2024 the species reached full maturity. Governance became content. Hearings became auditions. Floor speeches were written for clips, not colleagues. The camera didn't follow the power anymore — the power followed the camera. What emerged wasn't a new kind of politician. It was an old kind of hunger wearing a new kind of suit. The attention economy didn't corrupt Washington. It just gave Washington's oldest instinct a much bigger stage

The Pitfalls of the Polymarket

Kalshi — the $22 billion prediction market — lets users bet on elections, wars, and geopolitical events. A growing list of insider trading allegations has brought concerns all the way to the White House, including a US soldier charged for using classified intelligence to win $400,000 on the Maduro raid. The platform's own co-founder says the vision is to "financialize everything and create a tradeable asset out of any difference of opinion." Democracy as a derivatives market. What could go wrong

Benjamin Netanyahu

At least 75,498 people have been killed in the Gaza war, including 270 journalists. Netanyahu sits on Trump's "Board of Peace" despite an active ICC arrest warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity. He's simultaneously facing a corruption trial at home — repeatedly delaying his own testimony. And he has publicly restated his opposition to a Palestinian state while reconstruction hasn't begun

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The National Law Journal

NLJ 500

Cover and interior spot illustrations for the NLJ 500, The National Law Journal’s annual ranking of the world’s largest law firms. I designed the Cover and had the task of designing my own version of the “500”. Also accompanied by the skylines and metro areas of Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, DC, and NYC.

Pam Bondi

Bondi took a sledgehammer to the Justice Department — its independence, integrity, and workforce degraded more under her leadership than at any other time in the department's 155-year history. And then Trump fired her with none of the courtesy extended to other departing officials — no new title, no face-saving transition role, no ceremonial send-off. She was used and discarded

NSA To The Rescue

Federal Computer Week

An editorial illustration on the NSA recruiting tech workers laid off by Google, Microsoft and other Silicon Valley giants. Displaced employees stream out of a smokestack factory pumping out big-tech logos and follow a path toward a gleaming government headquarters, guided by a beckoning hand from an all-seeing eye.

The Miracle of the Poppy Flower

The poppy is one of the most medically significant plants in human history. Papaver somniferum — the opium poppy — is the most important species in pharmaceutical research, supplying alkaloids including morphine, codeine, thebaine, and papaverine that form the foundation of modern pain management

Gaza Airdrop

Israel's Defense Minister stated explicitly: "Israel's policy is clear: no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza, and blocking this aid is one of the main pressure levers." Then, as starvation deaths mounted, Israel announced it would begin airdropping food — a tacit admission of how severe the hunger crisis had become. But the aid itself became a weapon — at least 124 people struck by falling aid packages, 23 of them killed.

Sundance

A personal spec piece reimagining the classic ski resort travel poster for motion. Inline Deco lettering crowns a winter scene built from layered, faceted mountains and soft gradients, with a cherry-red gondola swaying on its cable and a snowboarder cutting fresh tracks in the foreground. Below, a warm, golden village with a lit Christmas tree glows between the pines, pulling the eye down the run. The palette stays cool, in icy blues, silvers and white, so the reds and golds read like a burst of warmth. Animated in After Effects, the piece brings the scene to life with falling snow, sparkling highlights and a sense of downhill speed.

9 Lives | Allplay

Board Game Tables

Illustration for 9 Lives, a trick-taking card game built around the old myth that cats get nine lives. The game was designed by Taiki Shinzawa, a major figure in Japan’s trick-taking scene, and brought to Allplay as the second title in its trick-taking line. In each round, players bet on how many tricks they’ll win, and every win puts another card back in their hand, with the first cat to nine lives taking the game. My artwork carries the cat theme from the box cover through the cards and components, keeping the look playful while giving each suit its own clear visual identity. The game has gone on to be a hit with trick-taking fans, praised for its exceptional production value.

Sydney Sweeney

The American Eagle campaign accused her of promoting eugenics with the "genes/jeans" wordplay — nearly derailing her career, followed by being outed as a registered Republican with MAGA ties, a string of box office flops, and now in April 2026 she went back to American Eagle with a cheeky reference to the original furor — essentially daring the internet to come at her again

Zohran Mamdani

Portrait of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The face is broken into hard-edged, Art Deco–inspired shapes, with diagonal shafts of light cutting across a saturated red field and a small Manhattan skyline anchoring the lower corner. The palette and angles push for intensity and momentum. In hindsight, I wish I’d known how smiley he is before I made this. He’s rarely caught without a grin, and I gave him the most brooding expression of his life.

Halloween | Spooky

A personal motion study channeling classic spooky-season storytelling. A round-fendered car creeps along a winding orange road through a forest of curling, tangled trees, its headlight beam slicing across the frame as rain streaks down. Up ahead, a crooked haunted mansion sits silhouetted against the full moon, surrounded by tilted gravestones, while a grinning skull and a glowing jack-o’-lantern lurk at the edges. The piece uses bold geometric shapes and a limited teal, orange and gold palette, and it was a chance to push my vector illustration into movement with layered parallax, looping weather and atmospheric lighting.

Bernie Sanders

84 years old, campaigning like a man decades younger, stumping for progressive Senate candidates across the Midwest, building what his allies call a Goldwater-style long game — plant the seeds now, harvest the movement later. Still the most popular senator in America with 68% approval in Vermont. And forcing Senate votes to block nearly half a billion dollars in arms sales to Israel — 1,000-pound bombs and bulldozers — winning 40 Democratic votes on the bulldozer vote alone

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Amazon Cat Adventure

The perils of being a house cat, and Amazon boxes

Central Park Merry Christmas 2024

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Palisades Wildfires

Press Telegram

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Biden’s Infrastructure

In November 2021 President Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act — a $1.2 trillion package that represented the largest federal investment in American infrastructure in generations. Roads, bridges, broadband, water systems, public transit, passenger rail, and the electrical grid