This is our fifth year designing and illustrating the One Maryland One Book campaign for The Maryland Humanities Council. This year's selected book is The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway and all materials are beautifully illustrated by Andrea Kalfas. For more info about this year's program please visit: www.mdhc.org
Music Lessons for New York Times
While waiting for my daughter's violin lesson to end this week, I received an email from The New York Times asking me to illustrate a story on how music lessons change children's brains. Okay, now I'm feeling pretty good. Apparently, music lessons early in life develop some rather important auditory skills that can stay with kids into adulthood.
The full story, written by Dr. Perri Klass, is here. Art direction by Peter Morance.
Directory of Illustration Brochure
Arriving soon in your mailbox....this year's Directory of Illustration Web + Print brochure art-directed and designed by Spur. A few of the artists I've had the honor of working with on this project in years past include: Mark Burckhardt, James Yang, Patrick Leger, Brian Stauffer, Andrew Bannecker, Chris Sickels,Daniel Krall, Jeremy Enecio, and Harry Campbell.
This year's cover is illustrated by the fantastic Brad Yeo and features stunning interior art by John Hersey, Mark Todd, and Melinda Beck. Go here for more information about the Directory of Illustration.
8th Annual Blab! Exhibition
Here are two dream-girl prints I created for Monte Beauchamp's latest, fantastic BLAB! Other artists include: Gary Taxali, Shag, Cathie Bleck, Marc Burckhardt, Chris Buzelli, Travis Lampe and many more.
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 8, 8:00 – 11:30 p.m.
Copro Gallery - Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Ave , Unit T5, Santa Monica , CA 90404
Details here: www.coprogallery.com
PrestoBingo Shapes is now available for iPhone!
After months of designing, coding, animating, re-coding and illustrating, we're happy to announce that PrestoBingo Shapes is now available for the iPhone! We're so excited to see our app expanding and we hope to tackle more devices in the future.
Babble's Top 50 Apps for Kids
PrestoBingo Shapes made Babble's 2012 Top 50 Apps for Kids list! You can check out Babble's review of Shapes here, and you can download PrestoBingo Shapes right here in the App Store. Thanks to the folks at Babble for the honor!
Playboy
Illustration for the article "Vexed Americana: How we became a Nation of Haters." Written by Taffy Brodesser-Akner. Bruce Hansen A.D.
Courage
I was asked by designer Antonio Acala of Studio A to create a piece illustrating a quote from "To Kill a Mockingbird" to hang alongside photographs of the American South by Rob McDonald for his show Native Ground at the Athenaeum Gallery. The show runs until August 5, 2012.
Other artists include: John Foster, Carolyn Sewell, Polygraph, Matt Wahl, Jason Gottlieb, Scout, David Whitmore, Francheska Guerrero and Gerry Greaney!
Why Conservatives are Happier Than Liberals
Illustration for the New York Times Opinion Pages. Art Direction by Alexandra Zsigmond. Read the article online here.
REFUSED Poster
Here's my poster created for The Fillmore Silver Spring for the punk band Refused. The show is tonight with special guests OFF! Details here: http://fillmoresilverspring.com/
Permanent Collection at the Nancy Margolis Gallery
130 artists were asked to select any single piece from the over 15,000 works in the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection and create their own version with restricted dimensions. Here's my piece for the show. 9x12, collage and acrylic on panel with raw steel frame.
The show is curated by Edward del Rosario and Jordin Isip and runs from July 12-August 4, 2012. Opening Reception on Thursday, July 12, 6-8pm, and features the work of the following artists:
Martin Adolfsson, Jose Arenas, Kim Beck, Melinda Beck, Polly Becker, Gregory Benton, Patrick Berran, Ben Bois, Kelie Bowman, Clayton Brothers, Calef Brown, Pam Butler, William Buzzell, Amy Chan, Wendy Chisholm, Hyemi Cho, Ludmilla Corcova, Louie Cordero, Paul Corio, Anthony Cudahy, Carl D’Alvia, Daniel Davidson, Cecilia de Corral, Edward del Rosario, Donna Dodson, Leslie Donaldson, Joel Dugan, Benjamin Edwards, Ursula Endlicher, Chris Feczko, Mary Flanagan, AJ Fosik, James Benjamin Franklin, James Gallagher, Brenda Garand, John Garcia, Sandra Gibson, Matt Haber, Jackie Hahn, Joseph Hart, Hunter Heckroth, Jason Holley, Hadley Holliday, Kenichi Hoshine, Jim Houser, Liz Hur, Mala Iqbal, Jordin Isip, Rich Jacobs, Susan Jamison, Frances Jetter, Masuko Jo, Duncan Johnson, Jugular, Jen Karady, Nina Katchadourian, Misaki Kawai, Hiroshi Kimura, Fay Ku, Hiro Kurata, Margaret Lanzetta, Cat Lauigan, Su kyung Lee, Rob Leecock, Matt Leines, Rachel Levit, Elissa Levy, Mon Li, Melissa Ling, Patte Loper, Marci MacGuffie, Amy Mahnick, Jane Mai, Melissa McGill, Taylor McKimens, Bronwyn Minton, Sarah Moseley, Kris Mukai, Erin Murray, Rob Nadeau, Tom Ngo, Stephen Nguyen, Rachel Owens, David Packer, Mu Pan, Chang Park, Soo Sunny Park, Maritsa Patrinos, Bruno Perillo, Chelsey Pettyjohn, David Plunkert, Jason Polan, Garrett Pruter, Jeff Quinn, Monica Ramos, Luis Recoder, Geoff Rockwell, Les Rogers, Gina Ruggeri, Stanley Ruiz, Jackie Saccoccio, Hazel Lee Santino, Bruce Schiefelbein, Kristen Schiele, Anna Sea, Paula Searing, Betsy Lin Seder, Randall Sellers, Kiriko Shirobayashi, Andrew Smenos, Rodger Stevens, Sto, Maribel Tapia, Mark Todd, Justin Valdes, Nichole van Beek, William van Roden, Dominique Vitali, Roxie Vizcarra, Marie von Heyl, Esther Pearl Watson, Sanders Watson, David Weeks, Emily Weiner, Eric White, Robin Williams, Karla Wozniak, Clifford Wun, Julee Yoo, Bill Zindel and Arthur Zomby.
You can visit the Nancy Margolis Gallery online for more details.
Worms for On Wisconsin Magazine
I recently finished a series of illustrations for On Wisconsin Magazine. The story is about the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), a project the University of Wisconsin has been working on for five decades. This particular spot was the perfect excuse to make worm type. Some days I have the best job ever.
Memory Development for New York Times
This piece, for The New York Times, talks about how memory develops in young children. Freud thought that we all repressed our early childhood memories, but recent studies suggest that is not the case. The full story is here.
Dallas Morning News
Illustration for the article "The Dark Side of Happiness" written by June Gruber. AD: Michael Hogue. Read the article online here.
NYU Physician 3
Cover art for NYU School of Medicine: "Roaming Water Molecules: New Insights into Cancer". Art Direction by Johanna Savad. Read more here
Gunpowder River Artfest - Boordy Vineyards 2012
This is the third year that we have had the pleasure of designing and illustrating the promotional materials for the Gunpowder River Artfest. The event, sponsored by NBCAF and hosted by Boordy Vineyards, is designed to promote the arts in North Baltimore County. There will be over 60 artists exhibiting, as well as music, food, children's activities, and wine tastings.
We will be there with lots of Spur Stor goodies, including some new prints that are fresh off the presses! Stop by booth 47 and say hello! The festival is June 2, 2012 from 12-7.
A Fierce Longing
Here's the latest poster for Baltimore's Theatre Project. "A Fierce Longing", written by John Schneider and directed by John C. Wilson, is based on the life of Nobel-nominated, Japanese novelist and playwright Yukio Mishima. The play runs June 1-9. You can find out more here.
Depression and Parenting for the New York Times
This piece is for an article by Dr. Perri Klass on how a parent's depression can affect the health of their children, art directed by Peter Morance. Scribbly clouds always make me happy, even if it's for a sad topic.
The New York Times Book Review
Cover art for Bill Clinton's review of Robert Caro's LBJ biography "The Passage of Power." Art directed by Nicholas Blechman. You can read the article online here.
Wall Street Journal
Illustration for the article "Up and Down: Fear of Investing Overseas" for the Wall Street Journal. Art Directed by Orlie Kraus.
