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Science Friday Live 2025
Because of the success of the Cannavan editorial illustration I did for Science Friday the previous May, when Senior Manager of Experiences Diana Plasker wanted to evolve the look and feel for the Science Friday Live event branding in a more illustrative direction, she emailed me. I was assigned two cities—Salt Lake City, UT and Columbia, MO—and tasked with playfully depicting the science that happens in each in order to promote Science Friday’s live event for potential audiences.
Creative Black Women In History You Should Know
To celebrate Black History Month 2023, I created assets for an Instagram random selector filter prompting users to learn about underappreciated Black women historical figures on the @HelloSunshine handle, which has a following of about 1M. “Creative Black Women In History You Should Know” highlights six women—Alice Allison Dunnigan, Cicely Tyson, Harriet E. Wilson, Hazel Scott, Della Reese, and Dana Canedy—all who have made important contributions but who I knew nothing about at the start of this project.
Commuters
This image is of commuters riding the subway in Big City.
Debtworld
I pitched several concepts to WWDN, a taskforce whose mission was to inform Gen Z about the growing crisis of the American national debt. The approved idea, Debtworld, is a portrait of a place where the projected changes brought on by our astronomically increasing national debt are wrecking havoc—social security has dried up and there’s no money available for civic projects like road maintenance or disaster relief from oncoming climate change. The project unfortunately did not end up launching but the illustrations I did for it were influential in the development of my creative sensibility.
Amy Muller’s Vital Signs
Comedian Amy Muller commissioned me for her 2024 ProjectorFest entry, Vital Signs, to make the accompanying animations that would go on-screen. The 30-minute live show was based off her collection of weird and unusual signs she’d seen across America and my job was help her visualize the scenarios that might’ve led up to their installations. I had so much fun with this project!
Reese’s Book Club x Blue Buffalo
I had the honor of drawing a set of dogs for a Reese's Book Club x Blue Buffalo dog personality quiz. This was an early foray into drawing completely in Adobe Illustrator for me, as I've always preferred to draw by hand, but it was a fun experiment and learning opportunity!
Science Friday Cannavan
I was approached by digital producer Emma Lee Gometz to create an editorial illustration to accompany a news article they were writing on a mobile cannabis research van. The objective of my design was to visualize how the van allowed researchers to “cut through the red tape” and make groundbreaking scientific discoveries faster, while also emphasizing the positive relationship between cannabis and science.
Animals Holding Their Babies
While watching a nature documentary about elephants, I noticed that not all animals can anatomically pick up and hold their babies—to carry them while they’re on the move, to protect them from danger, or even just to cuddle with them. This observation prompted an illo series consisting of four animals who cannot hold their babies, holding their babies in tender embraces.
Sign of the Dog
I ran this illustration series for three weeks on my blog, Enrichment Activities, titled Sign of the Dog. It features three illustrations of various dogs posing with signs that refer to them.
Alphaholics Anonymous Podcast
I was commissioned by a finance podcast to create cover art depicting “Wall Street Chaos.” The podcast never ended up getting launched but this was still a fun prompt to respond to and I think the illustration turned out really cute.