Returning Vets: The War Within

Veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have a difficult time readjusting to family life, especially those with PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injuries. That was the subject for this illustration for the Military Officers Association of America, in which I am trying to convey the vulnerability and isolation many veterans and their families struggle with.

CLIENT: MILITARY OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
ART DIRECTOR: ROSE RICHEY

Summer of Tough Love

Oh, I have been a bad blogger, I have not posted in over two months. I have been busy, which is always nice. Unfortunately, several of my recent efforts—for various reasons— never made it to press. Here are three projects which all died a premature death at comp stage:

These are two variations of a poster for a production of A Christmas Carol at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis:



CLIENT: GUTHRIE THEATRE, SPOTCO DESIGN
ART DIRECTOR: DARREN COX

This is a sketch and two comps for a novel about a dying young woman and an introverted, emotionally wounded young man transformed by love.



CLIENT: PICADOR
ART DIRECTOR: LEEANN FALCIANI

And here are two rejected versions of a paperback cover edition of a best-selling novel:



CLIENT: RANDOM HOUSE
ART DIRECTOR: ROBBIN SCHIFF, PAOLO PEPE