Editorial illustration and other small projects

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the words espacio estamos bien with illustrations of the birth and early growth cycle of a human wrapping around them

Editorial work and other small, one-off projects like posters and ephemera. Some of these were sketches that didn’t make the final cut. Pictured above is a birthday flyer for art cooperative Espacio Estamos Bien hosted at W139 in Amsterdam.

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Social media, printed matter and text for De Rest is Waanzin (The Rest is Madness), a solo exhibition by Maxim Preaux at The Box, Amsterdam.

a three-color illustration made of abstract, shard-like shapes appear to show a figure running in distress against an icey landscape
a text-heavy spread of a magazine with spot illustrations of the same jagged shapes appear to show a wide figure smoking a cigarette and a strange factory

Illustrations for a feature on the Swedish town of Kiruna in Brand, Sweden’s oldest anarchist journal. Made in collaboration with the issue’s guest designer/art director/visual editor Mika Kastner Johnson.

a laptop resembling windup teeth eating a floating wad of US dollars

First image: Discussing huge earnings reports with Shira Ovide for the On Tech newsletter by The New York Times, art direction by Elana Schlenker and Alvaro Dominguez. Second image: explaining the false strength of stablecoins for the NYT Business desk, art direction by Molly Bedford.

an illustration of a paper airplane made from a 1000 dollar bill with andrew yang’s face on it crashing into a telephone pole next to an article criticizing the politician
an illustration of an x wing fighter with needles instead of rockets escaping a black hole next to the title

First image: Diving into the hollowness of Andrew Yang’s platform for The Baffler, art direction by No Ideas. Second image: discussing the race to the cure for Bloomberg Businessweek, art direction by Albert Hicks IV.

a cigarette with the words "delivering a smoke-free future" printed on the side burning down to a butt

A loose cigarette sold by Kardesler Groente en Fruit at PAGES art book fair, Geneva, printed with the corporate slogan of Philip Morris International.

a folding poster for movie programming at the NYC Jewish Museum
both sides of the unfolded Jewish Museum poster
a white postcard advertising an exhibition titled
the same blurred title featured on poster box in the 86th street 1 station in Manhattan

Work for The Jewish Museum, NYC, unproduced following the US COVID-19 outbreak. Art and creative direction by Yeliz Secerli.

3 illustrated cards show a collaged stick of buttern with wings, earth distorted onto geometric primitives, and a 3D-rendered head with eyes popping out like binoculars

Illustrations for Go Name Yourself, a card game by A Hundred Monkeys. Direction by Out of Office.

a camel with an upside-down line graph overlayed that perfectly matches its hump

Why the hot new startups will be camels, not unicorns, on Medium’s Marker. Art direction by Dora Godfrey.

a vector illustration in blue and green resembling a medeival iconic panel showing a plainly dressed man with a beany refusing money from a parade of vassals
a machine appears to rotate picket signs for use as paddles striking palantirs containing the word

Opining on wins and losses for labour in the midst of the COVID Pandemic, again for Marker with AD by Dora.

a flower splitting to reveal vector lines and a data visualization a spinning airplane surrounded by flight diagrams and clouds of fiery digital noise

First image: a guide to ESG (environmental, social, and governance) investment for the guilty capitalist. (I personally wouldn't recommend relying on it for salvation). Second image: tracking the soon-to-be-frozen personal jets and yachts of Russian oligarchs early in the war in Ukraine. Both for Forbes, creative direction by Fernando Capeto.

an upside down image of a silver landscape with orbs surrounding a windmill that form a clock
a glossy eye in a void
a chrome 60s lunar probe in a void
a geodesic dome formed by chrome male and female figures with a lens flare in a void

In a special feature for Forbes, reminiscing on the social impacts of the “Blue Marble” image captured during the 1972 Apollo 17 mission, and the current time on the Doomsday Clock (a prediction of how close to the end of the world we are, which is given by, ironically, a line of atomic scientists starting with the inventors of the atomic bomb). Creative direction by Fernando Capeto.

Ranking staffing agencies for Forbes. Creative direction by Fernando Capeto.

a floating mannequin head wearing an EEG cap with metal flowers sprouting from the electrodes

Exploring techno-optimism for Hacking Finance. AD by Out of Office.

three packages of marijuana with illustrations of the village people, bernie mac as the sun in teletubbies, and the trix for kids bunny on steroids for various labels of marijuana strains

Weed labels for Gifted Curators, a D.C.-based gallery and dispensary. They cropped the Bernie Mac label to just his face, and the manager, my good friend, texted me “man, just make some shit people wanna buy.”

a 3D model of chad muska bent into the shape of a y
a photograph of a paper maiche skateboarder framed by illustrated typogaphry and small images of paintings of Gummo scenes
illustrated typogaphry reading
a poster with a large mouth breathing out smoke talking about invisible doom plumes
a poster with motifs like grass and giant keyholes that says soon i’m not done yet
a poster with repeating splotches and a marker word ready splutter
oversaturated digital artifacts resembling portraits of people speaking
album art of large pixelation patterns and a neon orange tube
donald trump and shinzo abe riding a dolphin and holding a spear under a rainbow
a computer holding its hands up in a spotlight with an image of vladimir putin crying on its monitor
a mouth with an eye and mustache arms ready to fight
cinderalla sprinkling luxury hotels on post-Katrina New Orleans
a hand pouring gasoline into a black plastic bag with a spilling bottle of gin hanging out pouring liquid onto a raw russet potato on a bed of kale