Archive for November, 2011
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Warm hearts on cold days
Like last year, Local Living’s Thanksgiving day cover story featured struggling food pantries and ways for readers to volunteer in their communities. My challenge: do something different with the same story and no money. I called on Felix Sockwell, whose ...
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No space? No money? No experience? No problem!
The challenge this week was do something different than last year with essentially the same story idea: holiday entertaining tips. With hardly any budget remaining for illustrations this year, I chose to use stock photography to create something lighthearted. The ...
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Pure Gold
Last week, I had the pleasure of art directing the photo shoot of Mitchell Gold’s DC loft. A week prior to the shoot, I visited the condo with reporter Jura Koncius, which allowed me to visualize the space and come ...
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2011 Virginia voters guide
I worked with Harry Campbell to create this concept for the Virginia voters guide. The challenge was to create an original cover that was different from the previous Virginia voters guide cover that ran only two months prior. I had ...
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A kid-friendly commute?
To illustrate this story, I took one of Metro’s rail maps and stripped away all the text and lines, leaving just the stops. I tried versions where I drew in the lines with crayon, but finger paint was much more ...