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Giving In To The Surveillance State

2012, Illustration
Client: New York Times Op-Ed

Art Director: Matt Dorfman

Will You Please Let Me Finish?

2012, Illustration  
Client: New York Times Op-Ed  

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Art Director: Matt Dorfman  
Co-design: Erik Carter

THEM, THEM, THEM…

2011, Op-Ed Illustration  
Client: The New York Times  

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Art director: Gary Fogelson

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The Threat to Miranda

2010, letters Illustration
Client: The New York Times

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Co-design: Walter Green

America Builds an Aristocracy

2010, Op-Ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

Co-design: Jason Arias

Exceeding Gratitude Longfellow!

2010, Op-Ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

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Art director: Aviva Michaelov

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Break Up the Air Force?

2009, illustration
client: The New York Times

Co-design: Sebastian Rether

Landing on the Hudson

2009, Letter Illustration
Client: The New York Times

Art director: Leanne Shapton
Co-design: Timothy Goodman

Scott McClellan Comes Clean

2008, Letter Illustration
Client: New York Times

Co-design: Rachel Matts

The Probability of 56

2008, letter Illustration  
Client: New York Times

To the Editor:
Samual Arbesman and Steven Strogatz think of baseball players’ performance at bat as being like coin tosses.
They suggest that replaying history with baseball statistics and a computer that uses a random number generator
to determine hits or outs gives a fair approximation of the probability of Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak.
And they conclude that “streaks of 56 games or longer are not at all an unusual occurrence.”

Not-So-Lonely Planet

2008, illustration
Client: New York Times Op-ed

A manipulation of the earthrise photograph by astronaut Bill Anders.

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12 Girl Strikes Out Everyone

2007, Letters illustration
Client: New York Times

Co-design: Loren Flaherty

Planet Op-Ed

2006, illustration
Client: The New York Times

Last year an unknown body (named 2003 UB313) that is slightly larger than Pluto was discovered at the edge of our universe. Since that time, an astrological debate has begun over the definition of ‘planet.’

End of Star Trek

2005, Letter Illustration
Client: The New York Times

Artifical Intelligence

2005, Op-Ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

Digital or Not, Thanks for the Memories

2004, letters Illustration  
Client: The New York Times

A Milestone Day for Gay Marriage

2004, illustration
Client: The New York Times

Death of Ronald Reagan

2004, illustration
Client: The New York Times

Out of This Solar System

2004, Op-Ed Illustration  
Client: The New York Times  

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Labels

2003, Letter Illustration
Client: The New York Times

Getting Lost

2003, letters illustration
Client: New York Times

Co-design: Tarma Shopsin

Tickets for This, Tickets for That

2003, illustration
Client: The New York Times

Co-design: Tamara Shopsin

Power to the Privileged

2003, Op-Ed illustration
Client: New York Times

Broken Promises and Political Deception

2002, Op-Ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

Soothing Israel’s Fears

2002, Op-Ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

Dealing with Dictators

2002, Op-Ed illustration
Client: New York Times

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Afterword: Post Cold War Era

2001, Op-ed illustration
Client: New York Times

McVeigh Execution

2001, Letters illustration
Client: New York Times

Letters illustration which ran the day following Timothy McVeigh’s execution.
This piece was a response to a number of letters to the editor which questioned capital punishment.

“...now that Mr. McVeigh is dead, what has changed?”

Pork

1997, Op-Ed illustration
Client: New York Times

Guilty

2013, Illustration
Client: New York Times

Art Director: Matt Dorfman
Co-design: April Scarduzio

Death of a Salesman’s Dreams

2012, Op-ed illustration
Client: New York Times

Art director: Matt Dorfman
Co-illustrator: Erik Carter

Chicken Without Guilt

2012, Illustration
Client: New York Times Sunday Review

Art Director: Nicholas Blechman
Co-design: Erik Carter, Kaitlyn Jeffers

PURCHASE PRINT

Taxing Wall Street Down to Size

2010, Op-Ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

All Politics is Olfactory

2010, Op-Ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

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Art Director: Aviva Michaelov
Co-design: Jinah Min

me_I

2009, Op-ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

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We’re Not Gonna Take It

2009, illustration
Publisher: New York Times Op-Ed

Co-design Stina Johansson

Asterisk

2007, letters Illustration  
Client: The New York Times

Barry Bonds hits career home run #756 to become the all-time home run king.   

In colloquial usage, an asterisk is used to indicate that a record is somehow tainted by circumstances, which are putatively explained in a footnote supposedly referenced by the asterisk. This usage arose after the 1961 baseball season in which Roger Maris of the New York Yankees broke Babe Ruth’s 34-year-old single-season home run record. Because Ruth had amassed 60 home runs in a season with only 154 games, compared to Maris’s 61 over 162 games, baseball commissioner Ford Frick announced that Maris’ accomplishment would be recorded in the record books with an explanation (often referred to as “an asterisk” in the retelling). In fact, Major League Baseball has no official record book, but the stigma remained with Maris for many years, and the concept of a real or figurative asterisk denoting less-than-official records has become widely used in sports and other competitive endeavors. A 2001 TV movie about Maris’s record-breaking season was called 61* (pronounced sixty-one asterisk) in reference to the controversy. Fans critical of Barry Bonds also taunted him with asterisks as he approached Hank Aaron’s career home run record.-from Wikipedia

The End of the Letter

2006, Letter Illustration
Client: The New York Times

Straight to DVD

2006, Op-Ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

The Whopper That Wasn’t

2006, Op-Ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

Two Americas, and Now Two Histories

2005, letters Illustration 
Client: New York Times

Has It Come To This?

2005, Letter Illustration
Client: The New York Times

What can be done to unify the country?

2004, Op-Art illustration
Client: New York Times

TorchGrrl

2003, Op-Ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

Co-design: Tamara Shopsin

Drilling in Alaska

2002, Letter Illustration
Client: The New York Times

Art Director: Brian Rea

Shame

2002, Op-Ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

A Time of Gifts

2001, Op-Ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

Yawn

2000, Op-Ed illustration
Client: New York Times

This piece ran the day of an American and Russian crew’s historic launch to inhabit
the new international space station.  

The event went largely unnoticed.

Apologies to Ed Ruscha.

Remember John Rocker?

2000, illustration
Client: The New York Times

A Challenge From Russia

2000, Op-Ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

China’s Subtle Spying

1999, Op-Ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

Co-design: William van Roden

Hyno-Coin

1999, Op-Ed illustration
Client: New York Times

E-Etiquette

1999, Op-ed illustration
Client: New York Times

Africa Wars

1999, illustration
Client: The New York Times

Lost Mars Orbiter

1999, Letters illustration
Client: New York Times

NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because one engineering team used metric units while another used English units for a key spacecraft operation, according to a review finding released Thursday.

For that reason, information failed to transfer between the Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft team at Lockheed Martin in Colorado and the mission navigation team in California. Lockheed Martin built the spacecraft.

“People sometimes make errors,” said Edward Weiler, NASA’s Associate Administrator for Space Science in a written statement.-CNN

Six Degrees of Monica

1998, illustration
Client: The New York Times

Art Director: Nicholas Blechman

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Needed: A Fed for the World

1998, Op-Ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

Affirmative Action

1996, Op-Ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

Art director: Nicholas Blechman

What Drives Suicidal Mass Killers

2012, Op Ed Illustration
Client: New York Times

Art Director: Matt Dorfman
Co-Design: Erik Carter

Punishing Wrongdoing on Wall Street

2011, Op-Ed letters Illustration
Client: The New York Times

Art director: Devin Washburn

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Depending on Oil

2011, Op-Ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

Art director: Aviva Michaelov

Educating Education

2009, Op-Ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

Art Director: Leanne Shapton

Doctor’s Signs

2009, Op-Ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

Doctors + baseball signs

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First Step on Nuclear Weapons

2009, Op-Ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

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Co-design: Lauren Schoonover

Thanksgiving with the Far-Flung Mulligans

2009, Op-Ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

Art Director: Leanne Shapton
Co-design: Peter Ahlberg

Super Sunday: And the Giants Decide It!

2008, Letter Illustration
Client: The New York Times

Boring Food

2007, Op-Ed illustration
Publisher: New York Times

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Mr. Universe

2006, Op-Ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

What Now?

2004, illustration
Client: The New York Times

Lack of Translators

2004, Letters Illustration
Client: The New York Times

No New Tax Cuts

2004, illustration
Client: The New York Times

Travel To Jupiter

2004, letters Illustration 
Client: New York Times

Showdown in Baghdad: Is the Finale Near?

2004, letters Illustration 
Client: New York Times

Anniversary of 9/11

2004, illustration
Client: The New York Times

All the President’s Numbers

2004, Op-Ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

The End of Saddam Hussein

2003, letters Illustration
Client: The New York Times

Attack Memo

2002, Letters Illustration
Client: The New York Times

9/11 Biographies

2002, letters illustration
Client: The New York Times

Misplaced Nuclear Secrets

2000, Op-Ed illustration
Client: The New York Times

Art director: Brian Rea

Budget Surplus Problem

1999, Op-Ed illustration
Client: New York Times

Remember the long gone federal budget surplus of the Clinton years?

This editorial documents some of the congressional infighting about what to do with the money.

I have always been very happy with this solution, partially due to the level of difficulty. This was the most boring editorial i have ever read so the difficulty was HIGH.

Theater

1998, illustration
Client: The New York Times  

The day the video of Clinton’s grand jury testimony was released.

On-Line Shopping for Dummies

1998, op-ed illustration
Client: The New York Times

And For Giuliani’s Second Act…

1998, Op-Ed Illustration
Client: The New York Times

Impeach, Censure, Enough

1998, letters Illustration
Client: The New York Times

The tale end of the Clinton impeachment.
Even those of us who had enjoyed the whole thing had had enough.