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Illustrator, designer, storyteller
For the past three decades, I’ve been illustrating the stories and communication of American business. For eighteen years prior to that (1978-1996), I was a graphic designer hired by companies in technology, the arts, and furniture.
My illustration career started as a frequent contributor to The Harvard Business Review illustrating editorials by the likes of Peter Drucker and Daniel Goleman on subjects from leadership to executive compensation, creativity, and philanthropy. That tenure proved to be the right training to develop a style geared to explaining complex topics with—typically with wit and simplicity. This soon led to regular commissions for the pages of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Utne Reader, The Atlantic, Fortune, Time, and Bloomberg Business Week. Over the years, I’ve been fortunate to attract assignments from international companies including Adobe, American Express, Boeing, Chevrolet, Deloitte, Google, Herman Miller, MasterCard, Mohawk Paper, Navigant, United Airlines, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Royal Mail, Pfizer, New York Presbyterian Hospital, and The Whitehead Institute. I have several long-term clients in Europe such as Baillie Gifford (UK), Mondadori Editore (Italy) and PNB Paribas (France).
I’ve created eight US postage stamps including the 2006 Love stamp and the 2010/11 commemorative Scouting stamps.
I’m a native of California and for the past 34 years I’ve lived with my wife and raised two children in Mill Valley, California. I work from two studios—Mill Valley and The Sea Ranch, California.
Published Books
Twelve children’s books including Stanley Goes for a Drive (Chronicle Books 2004), Stanley Mows the Lawn (Chronicle Books 2005), Stanley Goes Fishing (Chronicle Books 2006), Trucks Roll! (Simon & Schuster 2007), Hank Finds Inspiration (Roaring Brook Press 2008), Mr. Fooster Traveling on a Whim (Doubleday 2008), Lots of Dots (Chronicle Books 2010), Bee & Bird (Roaring Brook Press 2011), Tyler Makes Pancakes (Harper Collins 2012), Tyler Makes Spaghetti (Harper Collins 2013), Tyler Bakes a Cake (Harper Collins 2014), Sitting and Going (Harper Collins 2018).
176-page monograph titled The Illustrated Voice, 2003 (Graphis Press).
Awards and Distinctions
Founding member and Treasurer of the San Francisco Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Designers (AIGA), 1983.
Board member for the Illustrator’s Conference (ICON4), 2006. I am a member of the Society of Illustrators and the American Institute of Graphic Designers (AIGA).
Numerous awards from Communication Arts, The New York Art Director’s Club, Print Magazine, Society of illustrators, American Illustration and Graphis. I have received two Silver medals from the Society of Illustrators and was featured on the cover of Illustrators 42 Annual (2000).
Featured article in Communication Arts in 1999
Featured articles in Graphis magazine in 2003, 2004 and 2018.
Work is in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) and the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art (LACMA).
Frequent lecturer at universities and design conferences.