Once again we asked each of our illustrators to submit their favorite piece from the past year. We are honored to represent such an amazingly talented group of artists and are proud to present this yearâs collection of work. The images are grouped by theme so be sure to make your way all the way to the bottom. Illustration is an exciting, evolving medium and we hope this provides inspiration for the new year.
Our artists made work about happiness and health…
Chi Birmingham created a fun, animated gif of some runners for the New York Times Well Blog
Stephanie Dalton Cowan contributed to a series of several illustrations on Design Thinking, and how to create happiness in your life for Live Happy
Traci Daberko was feeling the love in her illustration about the happiness that comes from connections with other people for Live Happy magazine
Stuart Briers for Experience Life Magazine about good heart health
Pushart created a cut paper landscape of Sydney featuring the new convention center for a spread in PCMA Convene magazine
It’s no surprise that things got a little political this year….
John Jay Cabuay illustrated some colorful portraits for the September/October cover of Politico
Taylor Callery illustrated this horrifying piece for The Village Voice’s article about Trump at the RNC
Michael Witte illustrated some pretty funny caricatures of “Trump’s Court Jesters” for New Republic
Daniel Baxter drew portraits of six presidents in a movie theater for American Airlines’ ‘American Way’ magazine
David Brinley illustrated a cover for the Voice about Richard Mia‘s illustration for The
a new generation headed off to war Boston Globe about Putin’s strategy for Syria
They did a lot of editorial work about business and sciences…
Shaw Nielsen created this cool animation for the New York Times about how desperate towns have turned to private equity firms to manage their waterworks
James O’Brien illustrated a piece for the Wall Street Journal for an article about sliding compensation for executives
Raul Arias made a very clever illustration about Con Ed for the cover of the Village Voice
Daniel Hertzberg created a mesmerizing illustration for Nautilus about time travel
Dan Page‘s illustration for Mother Jone’s article “Shooting Blanks”
Phil Foster made a conceptual piece for Dallas CEO J.D. King created a cover for Public Power
magazine’s article about how low gas prices are hurting magazine
the industry, and how to survive challenging times
David Vogin created a retro photo illustration for CHOC annual report
As always, our artists also created some great work for universities…
Greg Mably created some colorful icons for Tufts University
Jon Reinfurt got literary with his piece for Penn Arts & Science magazine about how Shakespeare transcends time
Brad Yeo illustrated this full page piece as an opener for an article about the inventor of the lithium ion battery and what he’s up to now
Margi Kimball illustrated an intricate classroom setting for the cover for American magazine
Robert Neubecker drew the cover for the course Marc Rosenthal was commissioned by
catalog at University of California Riverside Princeton Alumni Weekly to illustrate a piece about Princeton slang
Jonathan Carlson illustrated this sci-fi piece for Penn James Steinberg‘s conceptual illustration
State Science Magazine about invasive species about big data for Rutgers Engineering
Our artists were also chosen for quite a few lifestyle/pop culture articles…
Nigel Buchanan showed off some of the cooler hair trends in the NBA for ESPN Magazine
Michael Cho painted a beautiful portrait of the man everyone loves to hate for The New Yorker
Jeffrey Smith illustrated a very vibrant piece of Parquet Courts for Rolling Stone
Gabriela Zurda’s fun, reversible illustration ran in the Village Voice’s article about a music festival in the Bronx
Sean McCabe illustrated a super full page in the Village Voice about new Marvel character, Kamala Khan
Ryan Huddle designed an inspiring illustration about New Year’s resolutions for the Wall Street Journal
Ryan Snook captured millennials and the Hylton Warburton illustrated a cover
music industry for Billboard magazine for warmer times for Washington Post’s Weekend magazine magazine
Martin Ansin had the fun job of creating a poster for a show called “Ancient Aliens”
Matthieu Forichon illustrated a tres chic woman Raul Allen‘s cover for Landslide magazine
at a cafe
Some of them also worked on site specific work…
Aldo Crusher‘s interpretation of Casey at the Bat for an exhibition at the National Pastime Museum
Mark Fredrickson also made a contribution for the Casey at the Bat exhibition
Elizabeth Traynor worked on watercolor ecosystem/habitat display boards for Franklin Park Zoo in Boston
Rapp artists also enjoyed branding and promo jobs this year…
John S. Dykes designed a whole 2017 calendar for Half Price books
Lonnie Busch animated this adorable Christmas ad for Brosway jewelry
Gwen Keraval‘s illustration for the 80th anniversary of the science museum in Paris
Andy Ward helped with the rebranding of popular Iskra Johnson‘s elegant
English record store, Life calligraphy for Allegretto
There were a few publishing jobs thrown in the mix…
Yuta Onoda was commissioned for this whimsical cover for Algonquin Books
Eva Vazquez made this impressive illustration for the book Las Peques Virtudes by Natalia Ginzburg
And sometimes our artists have fun with their own personal projects…
Peter & Maria Hoey have been working on a series of portraits of their favorite authors
Bruce Morser illustrated this wonderfully realistic oak tree for a fundraiser for a new Arts Center on Vashon Island
