Hipaa’s Use as Code of Silence Often Misinterprets the Law

Illustration for the New York Times Science section about Hipaa's use as a code of silence can actually deny patient information to family. Thanks AD Catherine Gilmore-Barnes!

Read it here.

Hacking medical devices

For a Health article about medical devices' vulnerability to hackers. Nobody has died as a result (YET), but it's scary to think about! Someone even hacked their own insulin pump to prove the point... 

Hot flash!

Illustration for a story about new drugs for treating hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause! Read the story here.

Lazy blogging

I haven't been very good about updating the blog lately, which I take as a good sign because I've been so busy! So here are a few things from the past couple of months that slipped under the radar.

96 Hours cover for Memorial Day Weekend

Sunday Datebook cover about the people behind SF Film Fest

Look ma, more bitcoins!

Something for Health about breakthroughs in medical research

iPhone is watching you!

For the Business section, about the disparity between men and women in tech

New ideas in mind

Illustration for the Health section of the SF Chronicle about new approaches in Alzheimer's research. You can read about it here.

Obamacare

Did this illustration for our Obamacare round-up! I dig the way my fellow designers incorporated the type!

Quantifying the brain

This was an illustration about The Stanford Math Brain Project, a study hoping to find out via MRIs which kids will most benefit from math tutoring, and how their neural pathways differ from those who won't. You can read the story here.

Insomnia and illness

Illustration about the negative health effects of insomnia for San Francisco Chronicle Health section! Yeah, more silhouettes... what of it?! Read the story here.

San Francisco Chronicle!

Wow, it's been a long time since I've posted here. I find blogging impossibly frustrating and hard to keep up with, so I'll just do a mass update. I have been hired as a full-time illustrator for the San Francisco Chronicle! Here are some highlights from the past 3 months, in no particular order...

This was one of my earliest illos for the Chronicle.

Something concerning sunscreen for the Health section...

I'm not really sure what to say about this one. Ran in the Style guide.

Book review illustration for Sorry Please Thank You by Charles Yu.

I'm also in charge of laying out the book review: it's fun trying to connect the illustrations with the layout and content. Here are a few of the layouts I was able to pull:

This one was my first Books cover, designed by Erick Wong

Julia Child!

The books section comes inside the insight section, so sometimes I have double-covers!

I think this kid looks like a young Spock.

I've been waiting for an excuse to put a giant robot in the paper. 

I've done a few things for the style section:

Best 100 shops in San Francisco. And I did actually draw 100 different objects!!

Some hand-drawn type, new for me!

Get your shop and drink on with this map of the best menswear shops located near quality bars.