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A couple of months ago I got to work with AD Stephanie Scholz from the Berliner Zietung and made this animated illustration for a digital campaign to promote reader submission.

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So very excited to share this piece I got to work on with @tonydeluxxx for the @nytimes. It is a series of personal accounts of people who have fallen sick with Covid-19, including my own. I’ve always been in love with any sort of rear window kind of narrative and was beyond stoked to utilize this trope for such a current and relevant story.

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Excerpt from my commission for Medium. 

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Happy Mother’s Day to all you moms and mom’s to be out there. 

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At the end of last year I got to work with a great team @zero.studios to create a series of illustrations for Canvas Medical. All illustration a geared toward explaining Canvas Medical very specific products and functionalities while keeping them cool. I’m gonna post a few of the illustrations and this one here is one of my personal favs. Swipe right for the animated version (animated by @pg.finn)

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When Breath Becomes Air: Not my kind of book but it was very insightful but also utterly tragic. A Gentleman in Moscow: Yes, very readable. The Plague: Has one of my all time favs and now one of four books I read for a second time.

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Super excited to share this animated illustration I made for @Nike ’s editorial Nike News to introduce a new type of sports bra. This is 1/3 illustrations I made in this series

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“The night I watched Yamaguchi win Olympic gold was one of the happiest of my young life. In the weeks following her triumph, I became increasingly aware of a wish I’d long harbored: to be seen — not as a bookish outcast or a sidekick-in-the-making, but as someone with power and potential of her own. While I knew I wasn’t going to be an Olympian, I had other dreams. I was always cramming spiral notebooks with tales of sharp, spunky kids solving mysteries, outsmarting grown-ups and saving their friends. The characters I invented usually shared some of my interests, my mannerisms, but until now they had all been blond and blue-eyed, because that was the sort of girl I used to dream of being.

After the Albertville Games, I started a story about a new character, and for once I didn’t have to stretch or struggle to figure out who she was or where she came from. Inky-haired, dark-eyed, unapologetically brilliant, she was my first Asian-American protagonist. You can probably guess what I named her.”

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This is the first out of many posts to come from a project I got to work on for @audubonsociety. A comprehensive guide to action on climate change. I’m very grateful to have been given this opportunity and to work with such a dedicated team on a topic that relevant to all of us. 15 pages and a partly animated online edition! More soon.

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Second out of three editorial animated illustration for Nike.

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December reads. 

Spring Snow: An insufferable written version of #richkidsoninstagram with good prose.

The Testament: Meh.

Marcovaldo: A real piece of candy reading it after Spring Snow and The Testament.

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Another animated illustration for @audubonsociety climate guide. This one is also from Level 1 which talks about immediate action everyone of us can take. “Find Your Climate Story” This illustration accompanied an article on how you can improve your house to be more energy efficient. 

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Had the pleasure to illustrate an article for @medium / @elemental by Julia Vartan on how gender relates to the definition of the word ‘strength’. Stellar art direction by @tessa_extra 

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bye bye old stuff

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