Cover illustration for Learning For Justice Spring 2022 Issue, on why and how to teach difficult history in the classroom.
AD: Chris Mihal
A series of illustration on climate change driven migration from regions in US that are devastated by the effects of extreme weathers.
AD: Jason McGregor
Cover and interior illustrations for The Walrus, on the issue of systematic exploitation of international student, especially those who are financially challenged.
AD: Paul Kim
A series of illustration for Insider, on Cerebral, an mental health app that claims to revolutionize healthcare only to fail its patients due to poor decisions made at the executive level.
Patients are misdiagnosed, overprescribed, and not provided with sufficient medical attention, and with insufficient number of doctors, nurses are burdened with patients outside of their area of expertise.
AD: Rebecca Zisser
For Architect Magazine, on how prolonged overworking and burnout has lead to many architects to leave their jobs.
AD: Rachel Jones
Cover and interior illustrations for the Walrus, on the issue of The Meeting House scandals.
Trendy, approachable new megachurches aren't immune to the prevalence of sexual abuse commonly present in large institutions, where there is a large gap in the power dynamic between the abuser and victims.
AD: Paul Kim
Cover illustration for Reader’s Digest’s 2022 Christmas special edition.
AD: John Montgomery
Cover and interior illustration for Broadview, on a very personal story about discovering the final days of the author’s grandfather, a victim of the Holocaust.
AD: Carol Moskot
Cover and interior illustration for Increment Magazine’s Container Issue.
AD: Mercedes Bazan
A personal story about rediscovering one’s own identity after divorce. Being married to a family with significant political influence in the town, she discovers her identity is reduced to “the ex-wife” after divorce.
AD: Margo Wininger
On steps needed to protect LGBTQ workers from workplace discrimination.
AD: Rachel Jones
Cover illustration for Dec 2021 issue of Broadview Magazine, on how second generation Canadians experience Christmas.
AD: Carol Moskot
On the importance of recognizing childhood depression, and the current health care system’s failure in providing the attention and aid needed.
AD: Carol Moskot
How to prepare oneself and loved ones in the face of passing.
AD: Danielle Sayer
A depiction of the campus of Stanford Graduate School of Business during the pandemic. There is a sense of loneliness and misplacement, when the sun-filled, lush campus is devoid of the usual liveness of students.
AD: Laura Thorn, Nathan Eames
On the emergence of culturally-specific therapy, where finding therapists from the same ethnicity and cultural background as the patients can leads to better understanding the patients needs, and finding therapy practices that resonates culturally.
AD: Aimee Nishitoba
I partnered with NBA Canada and Microsoft as one of the five BIPOC artists to create a series of illustrations celebrating the 2021 NBA season, utilizing Microsoft Surface Studio.
You may see the official site and promotional video here.
AD: Jordan Nelson
Exploring how COVID will permanently change the future of destination dining.
AD: Allison Kahler
Ongoing series of illustrations on enhancing shopping experiences via Shopify’s platform.
AD: Greg Ciotti
Panic buying is an irrational reaction based on our ancestral instinct to act in the face of danger.
AD: Natalie Vineberg
Dr Gina Rippon in her research proved that the long believed statement of women’s inferior brain is a bias stemmed from the sexist values in the neuroscience field.
AD: Lola Landekic
On the epidemic of fentanyl use in United State, due to its low cost.
AD: Emily Bogle
On how to deal with the various forms of grief and emotional negativity, including the threat of authoritarianism, the grief of losing a loved one, the frustration of a failing education, the pain of chronic illness, and the negativity that comes with being in survival mode.
AD: Chelsea Stahl, Kara Haupt
A series of illustrations providing an interactive visual representation of the old and new uses for each technological advancement. Some of the topics covered include: piggybacking an earthquake-sensing system onto a city’s existing fiber-optic network; using imaging tech used on the space shuttle to reveal never-before-seen text from priceless manuscripts; and applying an isotopic behavior first discovered in dinosaur teeth to probe what gave rise to life itself.
2021 Circle of Excellence Award, Grand Gold award
AD: Brandon Hook
A depiction of the stress experienced as all of our social spaces has been compacted into our homes due to COVID-19.
AD: Rachel Hawley
Hollywood’s future in China is looking more bleak than ever, dude to a combination of COVID, value differences, and growth of China’s internal film production.
AD: Nicholas Brawley
A series focusing on lives of incarceration and the effect on those around them.
AD: Nick Gazin
For Institutional Investor, on systematic fraudulent practices committed by Chinese corporations, costing American investors millions of dollars in lost.
AD: Jeremy Leung
Cover and interior illustration, on the emotion of disgust felt towards one’s own religion. The case study focus on the scandal of child molestation committed by Catholic priests and the archdiocese’s subsequent coverup.
AD: Nathan Eames, Surya Patel
COVID-19 forces online class to to be the new norm, which allowed for more access to long distance teaching from the best lecturers across nations.
AD: Minh Uong
Native Americans are often excluded in the narrative in the archeological study of the remains of their own ancestors.
AD: Michael Mrak
AD: Sarah Gordon
On how pandemics are recorded throughout history.
AD: Zach Ghaderi
By applying modern technology to genome filing, scientists were able to create a clearer picture of different ethnic ancestries.
AD: Francois Edmond
Fathers are often not expected to the emotion provider in the raising of children, resulting in emotional disconnection between the generations.
AD: Carol Moskot
On the importance of taking account into the gender of the patients when studying dementia in the elderly, as it affects the brain in different ways.
AD: Michael Mrak
ER nurses are often experience first hand the abuse exerted on women through their patients. The treatments are as much of a mental one as it is physical.
AD: Danielle Sayer
A series of illustrations on a Guatemalan woman and her daughter’s attempt to save themselves from local gang violence by crossing the border. The denial of their crossing caused the murder of the elder girl.
AD: Philipp Hubert
For a story about the sexual assault on the mentally disabled. The abusers are often their care takers in their owns, who see them as easy targets due to their difficulties in communication.
AD: Emily Bogle
a documentation of the experience of a girl from a mid-lower economic class in an elite private college. The wealth gap has shunned her from school culture and social network, despite her academic capabilities.
AD: Katie Kosma
2019 spring menu for Caffe Demetre, including the main menu and a set of bill cards.
AD: Wei Xu
Portrait of Gabriel Kehane, on his new work “Book of Travellers”.
AD: Deanna Donegan
A story about how three generations of women in the family escaped their abusive husbands through their resourcefulness.
AD: Vinnie Neuberg
On various topics of autism.
AD: Rebecca Horne
When discussing cancer with patients, it’s actually more beneficial to use more direct language to help them understand their circumstances clearly.
AD: Lucas Badger
lost in translation.
AD: Emily Bogle
For a fantasy short story on a young documentary filmmaker’s struggle to move on from deceased girlfriend.
AD: Irene Gallo
A personal piece inspired by the feeling of isolation in a strange place. Used as SOI call-for-entry poster.
China’s use of genetically modified monkeys as subjects of experiments has leads to the debate of ethnic codes in science.
AD: Emily Jan
A mother is denied to chance to take care of her newborn for testing positive on methamphetamine, even though she’s never touched the substance in her life.
AD: Vinnie Neuberg
After the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, female soldiers who fought as Tamil Tigers are re-confined to their domestic roles.
AD: Katie Kosma
On minimizing risks by splitting the investment over different platforms.
AD: Becky Guthrie, Genevieve Biloski
