5/14/08 Everyone should have somewhere to live. Habitat for Humanity of Canada is doing their best to solve shelter problems for people around the world, and has forged many partnerships with corporate sponsors to achieve their noble goals. This series of ten posters I illustrated for a token fee is currently making the rounds to celebrate and showcase these partnerships. Some household names like Home Depot and Maxwell House have stepped up, along with some very high-end legal and financial firms, and not least, the Governor General of Canada.

Art print show at the Oakland Feria Urbana this Saturday, 12/8/07 at 11AM to 4PM. Come check out my table, and bring me a warm drink.

5/30/07 American Illustration 26 winners announced. I entered two pieces in AI26 and one is in the "chosen" category, which means it is on their website. If you get tired of clicking through the edgy street art, you can go directly to my piece with this link. The illo below is the one that wasn't picked.

Leave Seals be is the name of the new campaign from The Marine Mammal Center. My illustration for these shirts, which are available for purchase here, is intended to narrate the tragedy of illegal harbor seal pup pickup that occurs every spring along the pacific coast. Proceeds from the sale of these shirts helps the center prevent pickups and treat the seals that need to be rescued.

10/27/06: Group show, oct 27 - nov 12, Michael Angelo Gallery, 1111 River St., Santa Cruz CA.

"Dia de Los Muertos" or "Day of the Dead" is a Mexican holiday that celebrates departed loved ones on November 1 and 2 each year.

Influences: no-one lives in a vacuum - we have all been influenced by that which came before. To see an artist who has influenced my work, point your Google Earth pointer to 33.47.43.47 N, 114.32.12.85 W, elev 387 ft.

(it's called the Blythe Intaglio)

Los Angeles Center for Digital Art announces:
"Top 40" LACDA Interna-tional Juried Competition Winners Show. March 9 – April 1. Reception Thursday, March 9, 7-9pm
"The Los Angeles Center For Digital Art is happy to present the opening recep-tion and exhibition for the winners of our "Top 40" Juried International Compe-tition for Digital Art and Photography. The show features the best 40 artists among our entrants representing a wide variety of styles, technological disciplines and cultures."

Los Angeles Center For Digital Art, 107 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles, CA
http://www.lacda.com

Marin Art Festival 2007 is this weekend, june 16th and 17th. You are invited to visit booth 121S where I will be showing, and hopefully selling, my recent limited-edition, silkscreened prints (serigraphs).

Winning the battle against cancer: showing self exam, research.

Oversight linked to framework: the repetition of a small orange square conveys the idea that the subject in the foreground belongs to a corporate enterprise, and the link from eyebrow to horizon to computer suggests that his scrutiny is over the inner workings and structure of the enterprise (it's much less esoteric to regular readers of Internal Auditor Magazine).

The future according to Apple: we are all living in pods. Actually this cover story for MacAddict's May 2006 issue was about the future of Apple's products. The future architecture sets the scene and plays on the word "pod.".

Ten years ago today: April 16, 1996. a full page illo for Adweek - new technologies create opportunities in new markets, and require new brands to sell therein. Parent companies remain unchanged in the background (sadly, i see from my notes that my rates have not gone up).