What's in the box?!

This piece I did for our local monthly mag 5280 is out now. The article provides a list of six local companies that deliver goods by box, right to your door: from organic produce, to recipes and necessary ingredients, to healthy snacks for active lifestyles. There's even one that caters to the nerd in you, that delivers boxes filled with t-shirts, figurines, and even Pez dispensers, all based on comics, Star Wars, video games and various other geeky subjects. They basically just wanted a collage of an artisanal type box, with the featured product offerings inside:

Here's my copy, above. Thank you so much to Sean, who art directed this one!

Can you dig it?

Here's a piece for The Chronicle of Higher Education. It was the lead piece in the Views section, and the story focuses on the need for colleges to get on board with the sustainable food movement, i.e. growing their own food, or at least getting as much as possible from local sources, etc.

The article is titled "Fire Your Food Service and Grow Your Own," and much of it details the way most colleges, despite their commitment to many other hot issues, are very much dependent on Big Agribusiness for their food needs. With my first set of sketches, I was focused on "getting big business out of the food," and also on the idea that so much of the food comes from very, very far away. My favorite was the "registered trademark" symbol being plucked out of the bunch of grapes:

Well, missed the boat on that one... The editor replied that they wanted to focus more on agriculture, and the connection between colleges and the growing aspect. So, back to the drawing board, and ended up with the solution you see above, combining the "university column" with the idea of gardening, by way of a spading fork. You can also see Brian Taylor's "Zombie Marathon" at the top of the page. Sweet! Thank you again, Ellen!

Weird (food) Science

Here are some tiny little spots I contributed to Radcliffe Magazine recently (none of which have anything to do with Anthony Michael Hall). They're part of an article in the Winter 2012 issue about a class that explores the science behind the food we eat.


These were a lot of fun to work on. Spot illustrations are sometimes more challenging than larger pieces, because you have to get more information into such a tiny little space. I think these came out pretty successfully. Thanks, Ronn!


Ronn Campisi art directed this one. And coming soon, another piece for Ronn for an article about vampires... And it has absolutely nothing to do with Robert Pattinson- for the most part.