An animated feature illustration and spot illustrations for Ursa Story’s “Happy Family”, written by William Pei Shih.
AD Mark Armstrong and Dawnie Walton
Illustration for The Washington Post, accompanying a short story by Andrew Lok Hang Chan, imagining a dystopian reality in 2050 if Hong Kong’s cultural identity becomes a relic of the past.
Art director: Michelle Kondrich
A six-page comic for USC Viterbi Magazine on how we can try to get a better understanding of how AI works so that it can be more transparent, bias-free and explainable in the future.
Art direction by James Kim
A comic about being someone with a lot of feelings.
You can read more about the process of making it here.
Illustrations for The Wall Street Journal Fall Book Review of 2023
Art direction by Matt McGovern
For The Washington Post, on why it’s taken so long to get a woman on the moon.
Art directed by Betty Chavarria
A personal piece inspired by the Taiwanese tradition of eating tangyuan to celebrate the winter solstice.
Illustrations for the animated short, ‘What I Wanted Most 我最想要嘅’, for Think!Chinatown’s Chinatown Arts Week 2021.
In “What I Wanted Most 我最想要嘅”, Yan Ping remembers her difficult journey as an immigrant from Guangzhou, China to Panama to New York City Chinatown. Through their memories of migration and the once booming garment factories of Chinatown, Yan Ping and her daughter, Ying, challenge us to demystify the promises of the American Dream and Gold Mountain (金山) that continue to bring immigrants to Chinatown and the U.S. for a better life for their loved ones.
A collection of annual personal pieces inspired by Chinese zodiac animals.
Cover illustration for True Love and Other Impossible Odds by Christina Li
Design by Laura Mock
Cover illustration for Science Magazine, on how nudging green choices on food delivery apps in China has greatly reduced users’ single-use cutlery consumption and can lead to environmental benefits like using points to plant real trees.
Art Direction by Marcy Atarod
Illustrated cover for The Scroll of Chaos, by Elsie Chapman
AD by Maeve Norton
Cover illustration for Stars, Hide Your Fires by Jessica Best
Published by Quirk Books
AD Elissa Flanigan
For NBC News, on how tightened immigration policies stanched the flow of labor into the home building industry.
Art directed by Chelsea Stahl
For ByFaith Magazine, on the power of bringing people together through the power of imagining a better future for all.
AD Maria Tamayo, Metaleap Creative
Full-wrap illustrated cover for The Last Mapmaker, by Christina Soontornvat
AD Hayley Parker
A personal project exploring the worlds of sci-fi and bioluminescence.
For SPLC’s 2023 wall calendar, on eradicating poverty and community care.
AD Sunny Paulk
A personal piece based on a dream.
Rejected book cover illustration
High Availability Architectures
For CockroachDB’s guide on high availability architectures, programs that are able to run smoothly even when experiencing failures within.
AD Swati Kumar, Jessica Edwards
Selected illustrations for RAND Corporation’s 2022 calendar, featuring Zora Neale Hurston, Margaret Mead, Nawal El Saadawi, Mario Molina and Marshall McLuhan.
AD: Rick Penn-Kraus
A personal piece about the experience of living through the COVID19 pandemic in New York City.
Portrait of Frida Kahlo
A personal piece inspired by Japanese Breakfast’s album, Jubilee.
Illustrated cover for Tahira in Bloom, by Farah Heron
AD Michael Jantze
To Hear Them Sing
For Fireside Magazine, accompanying ‘To Hear Them Sing’, an enchanting short story by Rebecca Burton. A student faces her final test in the exam to become an arbitect—growing and sculpting a seedling into a house-tree.
AD Pablo Defendini
Opening the Workplace Medicine Cabinet
For Workforce Magazine, on managing drug use in the workplace.
AD Theresa Stoodley
Illustrated cover for Bacchanal, by Veronica Henry
AD Michael Jantze
Personal project, an exercise in character design.
Where are the Gay Ladies of Cambodia?
For Longreads, on the experience of the writer and her wife trying to find safe spaces as queer people in Cambodia, and how they struggle to find the acceptance granted to male travelers.
AD Katie Kosma
Variant cover for Dark Horse Comics’ Black Hammer: Visions, issue #4, written by Mariko Tamaki.
AD Daniel Chabon
Shocked Quartz: Traveling with a Chronic Illness
For Catapult, a piece on living with a chronic illness, learning to let go of what you can’t control, and leaving a life that isn’t any less than.
Cover and interior illustrations for The Jedi Mind by Amy Ratcliffe, published for Lucasfilm through Chronicle Books. The Jedi Mind takes quotations and lessons from Star Wars and pairs them with practices such a breathing, posture, and meditation. It features 20 illustrated portraits, paired with mindful practices.
The coronavirus intensified a hunger crisis last year, but 2021 could be worse
For The Washington Post, a piece that focuses on the experiences of three different people in Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Uganda and how it’s impossible to untangle the pandemic from material inequities that greatly worsen its effects.
AD Cece Pascual.
Illustrated cover for The Cheapest Nights, by Yusuf Idris
AD Colin Webber
Cover and spot illustrations for Lawn & Landscape Magazine’s October 2020 issue, on the state of the landscaping industry during the COVID-19 pandemic
AD Justin Armburger
A portrait of Jane Goodall for an episode of the podcast, On Being with Krista Tippet.
AD Erin Colasacco
Cover for the Travel section of the Washington Post, celebrating the tricentennial of New Orleans.
AD Jose Soto
Illustrated cover for The Broken Circle, by Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller
AD Merideth Mulroney
Illustrated portraits for Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy, by Amy Ratcliffe, published for Lucasfilm through Chronicle Books. Portraits include Rey, Hera Syndulla, Luminara Unduli, Arihnda Pryce, Ursa Wren, Cato Parasitti and Oola.
Cover of The Washington Post’s Outlook section, about a massive Canadian fossil trove that reminds us how fleeting life on Earth can be — and how much peril we’re in.
AD Lizzie Hart
Selected illustrations for San Francisco Chronicle's monthly restaurant column, 'Housemade'
AD Paolo Lucchesi and Ali Bouzari
Portrait of Jane Goodall
Selected illustrations for San Francisco Chronicle's monthly restaurant column, 'Housemade'
Illustrated cover for The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan by Sherry Thomas
AD/Designed by Neil Swaab
Website illustration for Ming River Baijiu celebrating the heritage and history behind baijiu and presenting the complicated process behind the scenes.
Riding the Rails
For Slant’d Magazine’s Issue 04, ‘Revolution’, about the history and legacy of the transcontinental railroad, and the overlooked Chinese immigrants who helped to build it.
AD Vanessa Shyu
Personal piece
The Forgotten Northern, Pre-Civil War Origins of Jim Crow
For The Washington Post Magazine, about the North, the South and the forgotten origins of racial separation.
AD Christian Font
Personal piece
Personal piece
Looking Ahead to a Brighter Future
For Audentes, a company focused on developing genetic medicines for serious rare neuromuscular diseases.
Personal piece inspired by the Hungry Ghost Festival
Cover and feature illustration for a piece in Discoveries Magazine on preeclampsia, a pregnancy complication, and the battles that doctors are going through saving both the mother and child during childbirth if the seizures occur. Preeclampsia in Greek means “Before the lightning”.
AD Tim Baldwin
Remnants of Ancient Civilizations Are Still Around Us, But They’re Vanishing Fast
for the June 2019 issue of Sarasota Magazine, on the fast disappearing archeological sites in Sarasota County.
AD Gigi Ortwein
For Science Magazine’s Fall 2019 reading list.
AD Christina Aycock
Big Companies Thought Insurance Covered a Cyberattack. They May Be Wrong.
For The New York Times Business Section
AD Minh Uong