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Client: The Guardian

AD: Francisco Navas

Brief: While it’s not easy to take life, it’s also painful for US soldiers to speak about the war. But how about other groups who respond differently to the warfare? A report by Manvir Singh.

A personal work about how motherhood may bring a woman revisiting her childhood, also envisioning her child once she enters womanhood.

This is a visual metaphor about the nature of woman in the nature of her time.

Recognition:

CA Illustration 2024 - Shortlist

Client: The Guardian

AD: Rita Liu

Brief: Undocumented immigrant families in California have been looking for temporary shelters.

A personal work about a man taking his moment at the shelter, enjoying the rhythm of falling rain.

Recognition:

CA Illustration 2023 (Shortlist)

3x3 Illustration Show No. 20 (Merit)

A personal work about a moment of desiring freedom, thinking about a plan for prison break.

Recognition:

CA Illustration 2024 - Shortlist

This is a piece to portray the unaccompanied minors, especially children trying to reach the US-Mexico border. It’s understood that the number has decreased but still, it’s an issue not to be overlooked.

A piece about coast guard crisis experienced by Haitian family and children. This particularly centers on a boy trying to reunite with her mother in US. Originally for Propublica.

Client: The Fuller Project and The Guardian

Editor: Claire Cozens

Brief: Female workers tell of exploitation and sexual assault at frankincense warehouse supplying US essential oils company. A report by Rachel Fobar.

A recent personal work on the stylized version of Academy Award aka Oscar statue, about Oscar finding a lost flower amidst his thick garden of bushes.

Recognition:

Communication Arts (CA) 2022 - Shortlist

3x3 Illustration Show No. 19 - Merit

A personal work about a lonely girl waiting for a phone call during lockdown. She needs someone to talk to.

Client: Firewords Magazine Issue 13

AD: Dan Burgess

Brief: Being unwelcome at her own home, a troubled Sarah has nowhere to go during the lockdown. A short story by Maria Kenny.

Recognition: 3x3 Illustration Show No. 18 - Honorable Mention

Client: The New Yorker

AD: Nicholas Konrad

Brief: The showrunner Taylor Sheridan has been given wide latitude to iterate on the world of the Dutton ranching family, but he’s best when honoring his Western’s melodramatic core. A review by Lauren Michele Jackson.

A personal work about a couple giving each other silent treatment after a big fight in their house.

Brief: A man is quietly thinking about his lover from a quite distance, and so does she, from another part of his world.

Recognition: Creative Quarterly 60 - Winner

Link: https://cqjournal.com/magazines/60

A personal work about a lone wolf, taking a break after sketching the quiet scenery in autumn season.

I decided to let the landscape to speak for himself, whether it’s a dry swamp or simply piles of falling leaves on the ground.

Client: Science for the People Magazine

AD: Calvin Wu

Brief: The dual consequences of a bleeding Earth—ecological destruction and climate chaos that threaten humanity’s own existence, and social demoralization that denies most humans the rights to live as humans—shape our struggle today. Resistance to extraction has become more urgent than ever.

In this current issue, SftP presents stories across the world against mining, land dispossession, water privatization, and phony technocratic promises. These cases are by no means representative of the diverse anti-extractivist movements with distinct local contexts. However, they are all interconnected within the same process of social metabolism.

Client: The Fuller Project and VICE World News

Editor: Peter Gelling

Brief: Proceedings are taking years, leaving survivors stranded as courts struggle with a lack of resources.

The last time Cobie Jane spent time with her two sons was in 2018, despite her legal right to shared custody with her ex-husband, who lives with the boys full time. Known around their Connecticut neighborhood for his aggression, her ex has raged at neighbors, school administrators, and coaches, Jane says, and their divorce was prompted by an outburst in which he physically attacked their younger son at the breakfast table in 2015.

A report by Jessica Klein

Recognition: AI 42 - Chosen Winner

A personal work about a man walking after the shadow of a woman whose whereabout he only remembers whenever the night comes.

A personal piece about the reunion of a war veteran with his lover and his home. I was intrigued to call this piece Growing Old Together which actually sounds apt too.

Brief: A personal work about a man looking forward to his death, at the ocean deep, at the color of blood red.

Recognition: Hiii Illustration 2020 - Merit

Print + NFT of this piece is available on the Artling

A personal piece about oneself running towards a chance, even it seems almost impossible. In other words, run to that opening door before it closes.

Client: The Fuller Project and Reckon

Editor: Peter Gelling

Brief: Providers brushed off Tomeka Walker nearly a dozen times during her first pregnancy. When she showed up with bleeding, called with concerns about lack of movement in the womb, or just generally had questions, she was told “Don’t worry, it’ll be fine.”

But while getting ready for a Memorial Day cookout at her parents’ home, she started having what felt like period cramps. She later found out they were contractions. Within the hour, she gave birth to her son — who she'd already named Khairi — in her childhood bedroom. He was just over 21 weeks old and died shortly afterward at the hospital.

Walker, like many Black women in the South, did not get the care she needed to cope during own pregnancy loss. Georgia and Alabama, where Walker lives, are the most dangerous places in the country to give birth. But despite that — and because of that — women like Walker have built community-based support to help others who are going through pregnancy-related loss, providing the wraparound care and mental health support that they never had.

A health report by Erica Hensley.

A personal study on muted colors.

The public swimming pools are finally reopened after a year of shutdown. It feels good to be back into the under water again.

Client: The Guardian and The Fuller Project

AD: Jehan Jillani

Brief: Nearly three million Filipina women work abroad as migrant domestic workers, where they are paid low wages to clean homes, cook meals and care for wealthy families — under often horrendous conditions. Now, nearly a year into a global pandemic, thousands are stranded with even fewer options to flee exploitation. A report by Corrine Redfern.

Client: Breathe Magazine Issue 37

AD: Jonathan Grogan

Brief: Regret can feel like a gut-punch – but what can it teach us about the past, present and even future? A mindful article by Carol Bomber.

Client: The Fuller Project

Editor: Peter Gelling

Brief: The U.S. maternal mortality rate in 2020 reached a high never before seen since tracking began. But most states aren’t counting suicides and overdoses as a part of their formal pregnancy-related death review, which means the maternal mortality rate could be even higher. A report by Erica Hensley.

A personal work about daddy coming back after abandoning his family out of sudden, with a red balloon for his daughter.

A personal work about white collar workers preparing their early retirement. They may plan for a period of getaway or a start on entrepreneurship.

Recognition: 3x3 Illustration Show No. 19 - Merit

Title: California Dreaming Series

Client: The Guardian X The Fuller Project

AD: Rita Liu

Brief:

1) Dialogue around ‘coercive control’ in relation to financial abuse is gaining steam in the US, with California passing laws to protect victims from collectors. A report by Carly Stern.

2) Why some California women try to avoid raise and how benefits cliff hold them back. A report by Bunny McFadden.

3) Undocumented workers play a crucial role in California’s labor force, but are forced to take exploitative jobs. A report by Yusra Fazran.

4) Pandemic relief initiatives helped lift many families out of poverty and now those programs have all but disappeared. A report by Courtney E. Martin.

Client: The Fuller Project

AD: Kim Abbott, Mariyah Espinoza, Karoline Gonzales, Abbie Steckler

Brief: Series of illustrations for 4 categories to celebrate International Women’s Day; Economy and Labor, Environment and Climate Change, Health, and Movements.

Client: The Guardian and The Fuller Project

AD: Rita Liu

Brief: Female farmers represent an increasing share of Golden State cultivators – and grow a wider variety of ‘specialty crops’ than done in traditional monoculture. A report by Rachel Sarah.

Client: The Guardian and The Fuller Project

AD: Rita Liu

Brief: Why some California women try to avoid raise and how benefits cliff hold them back. A report by Bunny McFadden.

The story of this piece is about being always at the sideways, feeling the fear to make a move.

Recognition:

CA Illustration 2024 (Shortlist)

Bal Harbour Magazine has been a longtime champion of fashion illustration, featuring the work of established and rising talent alike including David Downton, Donald Robertson, Jean-Philippe Delhomme, Ruben Toledo, Kelly Beeman, Jenny Walton, Cara Deming Butler and many more.

They launched the Creative Challenge in 2020 as a means of further expanding their support of this genre and its creators.

I’m thrilled to be among 10 finalists of their 2023 Creative Challenge and selected to appear in upcoming Fall/Winter edition.