What happens when an Arctic Ranger and a Special Forces ski trooper meet at the North Pole? A full-page metaphor on Canadian-Russian relations art directed by...

In early 2012 I decided to get to know my adopted region as well as I knew my old one, all through research, geometry, and attention to detail. By the end of 2016...

New Scientist magazine and I have been frequent collaborators, and here you can see what happens when an article on the evolution of the perceptions of Darwin's...

This is a 24x36" one-colour silkscreened chart showing the complex evolution of the Edmonton music scene over six decades. It started as an exercise in community...

Rumour has it us Canadians are so well-minded when it comes to money that we even have their own magazine about it called MoneySense, and in June of 2016 I helped...

While I was allergic to drawing the human form in the early and mid-2000s, the body has become a muse as of late. What’s inside me? What’s inside you? What about t...

Bra Koll is the in-flight magazine of Swedish air carrier BRA, and they’ve contracted me to draw “så funkar det” ten-point infographic illustrations for every issu...

Canada’s graphic arts magazine of choice is called Applied Arts, and they marked their 30th anniversary in April of 2016 by hiring a brand new creative team (Made ...

Shopify.com is an internet company that gives people like you and me a platform to sell whatever they’d like online. They also are a company that hired me to make ...

Every once in a while I like talking, and in January of 2016 some people even paid a dollar or two to listen. Given I was speaking about where commerce and art...

In November of 2015 the Consumer Electronics Association mag asked me to reflect on where AI, autodrive cars, and your average family will intersect. The result:...

A package for the 3 October 2015 Economist Special Report on the dollar’s role in the world economy, focusing on America’s lingering power in financial diplomacy. ...

You’re in Germany and wondering “is that a bratwurst driving by?” You’re hungry, but not hungry enough to eat at that kebab stand. You’re more interested in home c...

It's the 31st century and businesses are doing things nobody has even dreamt of yet, and as a result, it's a good time to be a conceptual illustrator. In this...

I’m the singer, guitarist, and visual end of a two-piece garage-shock band called the Famines, and we usually don’t even dream in colour. These are our albums and ...

The German-language parenting magazine Nido is a good one, with progressive photography, unglossed articles about family issues, and this illustration as well. It...

Part of a larger package of spots and tiny icons for GQ’s June 2015 “the Indie Wedding Revolution” feature. From top left: keeping photos informal, friends as of...

This cutaway illustration shows the Washington State University-Mount Vernon Bread Lab, and it accompanied a “Science Team 3000” article about said agriculture and...

Above youll find the master version of a spread “Visual Statement” I made for the March 2015 issue of Foreign Policy magazine. It’s in reference to the Russian ...

This pleasant little vignette shows the French dietary scientist Jacques le Magnen in his kitchen lab in 1956, and he's discovering the “smorgasbord effect” via ...

This is Cleo the studio cat's exterior and interior appearance, but you're free to project the identity of any cat you wish on it. It's for anyone who's ever...

I would never have guessed Vivek Shraya and I would be a good match, but a year after receiving his first call I’m comfortable referring to our collaboration a “...

Gentleman Deputy Art Director Paul Rider commissioned the above illustration for the August 2014 issue of Wired UK, and it's a section-front full-page jumble...

It’s always a pleasure to stretch out and make tall illustrations in print, and this gentleman stood about 20" tall in the 25 June 2014 issue of the Washington ...

If your Swedish lessons are going well, you could drop by Kmagasin.se and find this illustration in its natural habitat, along with its pair, an illustration of...

This is a 24x30" silkscreened print that distills the First World War into 1000 words and 20 images written and illustrated by yours truly. Included in this...

This package was made for the April 2014 issue of Economia, a UK magazine that deals with accounting, accounting, and accounting. The argument it reflected:...

Between April of 2008 and March of 2014 I was lucky enough to have been paired with the author and economist Tim Harford’s “Undercover Economist” column in every i...

These are two 18x24" three-colour screenprinted 36-point anatomy charts illustrated and researched in late 2013. In each: the brain (including the parietal,...

For two years I spent my free time drawing and writing my way through a book about the Cold War, one planned to eventually span some 300 pages alternating images...

Into symbolic analysis? Then I have the illustration for you. Drawn in January of 2013 for Sub Pop Records, this spent a good two and a half years waiting on ice...

A full-pager for the Walrus’ December 2012 issue, one that accompanied an Evan Fraser and Andrew Rimas piece titled “How to Feed Nine Billion.” Almost every selec...

In October of 2012 Print magazine released their “International” issue, meaning that they stowed their usual contributors’ list and sought out new designers and illu...

This is a package for the Sept. 2012 issue of Avenue magazine feature titled “How to Reno a Neighbourhood.” Since it focused on Calgary’s older neighbourhoods re...

This collection of icons is a jumble of two different assignments with close aesthetics: one for the American schooling network SYA’s recruitment brochure, the o...

This illustration was from a set of five for the Victoria Symphony’s 2012-2013 program, and each one reflected one of the BC provincial capital’s many beauties: it...

I could probably go on for some time about how I don’t consider myself a designer, don’t have such credentials, and am not really comfortable putting myself out th...

A simple little spot for Today’s Parent on buying cars and not getting stiffed too much. Hint: buy used, don’t lease. I put one of my fave cars at centre, being a ...

For the Spring 2012 issue of the University of Alberta’s alumni magazine, New Trail, accompanying a cover story by friend Omar Mouallem about the convergence of c...

These two illustrations were for le Monde’s special issue on Algeria, accompanying some new journalism as well as an excerpt from historian Sylvie Thenault's l...

In 2012 I made a dozen drawings for a Folio Society reprint of John Gribbin’s "In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat." The full set included a cover and eleven interior d...

This office scene was assembled for American Portfolios’ Free magazine on the occasion of their tenth birthday. It was deployed as a cover and printed silver f...

Find above an accurate 13-point beef cut chart I made that ran as a half-pager in the September 2011 issue of Real Simple magazine. It was part of that issue's...

A spot-colour illustration made for the first issue of a UK-based design journal called the Manual. It accompanied a piece by celebrated designer Simon Collison,...

Find above and below two full-page images made for Soma’s Spring 2011 issue, on the topic of artificial organs, past and present. The top illustration is one of m...

This set of four illustrations includes the first serious nude I ever assembled. Consider me a late bloomer. She was paired with the dramatic reproductive short...

As mentioned earlier, I accompanied author and economist Tim Harford’s Undercover Economist column in every issue of the Financial Times’ Weekend magazine for a si...

In 2010 Saatchi & Saatchi LA and I spent much time putting together an enormous set of concept illustrations which then turned into the inspiration for animated...

This is from when I flew too close to the sun that was mid-century American illustrator Charley Harper for the cover of Sweden's SOMA mag in 2010. I made a gorgeous...

Find below a full-page illustrated chart for Men’s Health showing the correct paths of the endocrine system between your organs, triple fact-checked by a real and a...

A full-pager for the 31 May 2010 issue of the New Yorker that went with a column by their medicine writer Dr. Jerome Groupman. The gist: the products of...

This package ran in the Globe & Mail’s Report on Business magazine next to five different articles, each illuminating a different part of the then-struggling N...

One of those wonderful moments when an illustrator (me) and an art director (Samuel Vergnaud) both agreed that a rough was spirited enough to go directly to print...

A set of six little drawings for use in the Alberta Pension Services’ employee handbook and elsewhere, reflecting teamwork, planning, service, etc., and always t...

This is one of my favourite FT Weekend illustrations, one that accompanied a column on the 4th of July 2009 about the studies of physicist Cesar Hidalgo and...

The above was a full-page opener for a 16 May 2009 Economist special feature on the previous year’s financial crisis. Its theme: picking through the financial r...

In May of 2009 Flemish Eye Records of Calgary threw its 5.5-year anniversary party. I couldn’t be there, but I could make them this 24x32" silkscreened show p...

A two-colour business press half-pager for the Talking Points bulletin that’s actually become one of my favourite pieces, aesthetically. I’m embarrassed to admit t...

While I’ve had to format this piece strangely to fit this space, it originally exalted the superior strength of Neeneh’s papers as a spread in that company’s 2009 ...

One of my favourite show posters, this advertised the launch of Mike Soret’s book Confessions of a Local Celebrity in 2009. The gist: it was Mike’s autobiography, ...

Between June 2007 and February 2009 I had at least one illustration in every issue of the then-fledgling Monocle magazine, usually accompanying short-form text in...

A quick half-pager for the MIT Technology Review illuminating the interaction between Wikipedia, its users, and the sometimes ambiguous sources they rely upon....

In June of 2007 the Seattle Stranger’s art director Corianton Hale hired me to make a dozen or so section header icons for the paper’s swell redesign. Think: art...

This is a promotional postcard made in February of 2007 and its concept was no more complex than “I can make a camera and make it intrude on whoever receives it.” ...

This is a 24x28" silkscreened map of Europe circa 1919, made to be played as if it was the classic Risk board game. It’s mostly geographically and historically a...

This is a 2006 mangling of Edmonton’s civic crest, and it’s been printed on paper, shirts, stickers, legs, and biceps. What's going on with it? The city’s mantra (...

Edmonton’s Vue Weekly commissioned this cover illustration reflecting Taras Grescoe’s the Devil's Picnic: Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit. Strips of...

Between 2003 and 2007 I made a black and white half-pager a week for an Edmonton Journal columnist, Todd Babiak, and this is my favourite of the resulting 219...

A half-pager for Montreal’s Maisonneuve showing how languages work in close contact with each other, and also how they may even require each other to remain f...