NEW WORK LOG
The Good, The Blog and The Ugly
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In an effort to post my recent work more frequently that merely within the calendar year in which it was created, thanks to a generous corporate partnership with Blogger, the New Work Log has officially gone Blog.


Heave your tomatoes here: johnhendrix.blogspot.com

 

IMAGE ARCHIVE
Drawings not found on my portfolio page
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DOOMSDAY (AGAIN) December 31, 2006



BULLETIN of ATOMIC SCIENTISTS, Spread, "Doomsday!" 1/07
PREMIERE, Spot, "Oscar Hopefuls" 12/06
LA MAGAZINE, Spot, "Rocky" 1/06
RUNNERS WORLD, Full Page, "Life Runs" 11/2006
FAST COMPANY, Spots, "Sustainability" 11/06

MORE JOHN BROWN December 15, 2006



• IP PRESS, Cover, "John Brown: Life & Letter" 12/06
EMC, Campaign, "Information Ads" 12/06
NEWSWEEK, Spot, "Buzzwords 2006" 11/2006
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, Poster, "Folio Day" 10/2006

THE MIXED BAG November 5, 2006



• FARRAR,STRAUSS & GIROUX, Book Cover, "Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane" 9/2006
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Oped, "Old Pitchers" 10/2006
• RABBID RABBIT, Comic, "Urban Uppercut" 9/2006
HARCOURT, Essay, "The Voyage of the Trieste" 9/2006


• THE NEW YORK TIMES, Cover, "NY Mason Dixon Line" 8/10/2006
(See my first drawing to ever appear on the front page of the NYT)


AI25 CALAMITY!
August 1, 2006



As part of the 25th anniversary of American Illustration, I have been asked to participate in a traveling gallery show that will also appear in the new annual. 25 illustrators were given one year to depict between 1981 and 2006. This is 2005.

TRAVELOCITY, Ad, "Find the Gnome" 7/2006
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Oped, "Bad Reviews" 7/12/2006
SPIRIT, Spread & Spots, "Shoot to Kill!" 10/2006
BOSTON MAGAZINE, "Restaurant Guide 06" 9/2006
GLOBAL CUSTODIAN, Spot, "Ukraine's Second Act" 9/2006

ESQUIRE, Type Spot, "Earspray" 9/2006

 





 

 

 

NEWS
From the Drawing Board
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AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION 26 May 3, 2007
Two images were chosen to appear in the AI26 web annual.
BULLETIN of ATOMIC SCIENTISTS, Spread, "Doomsday!" 1/07

SCOTT'S TISSUES, Ad, "Soften the Blow" 11/06 (see blog)

STUDENT SUCESS 2
May 3, 2007
Julia Kuo, a senior illustration student I teach at Washington University has an image selected to appear in American Illustration 26! Also, Anne Costa, senior at WU, will have two images chosen to appear on the American Illustration 26 web annual. Double congratulations!

STUDENT SUCCESS April 5, 2007
One of my senior illustration students at Washington University in St. Louis, Morgan Schweitzer, won a $2000 scholarship from The Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Show. Morgan finished in the top 10 from over 4000 entries nationwide.

CA ANNUAL 2007
April 2, 2007
The book jacket illustration for The Dead Guy Interviews cover will appear in this years Communication Arts Illustration Annual.

PENGUIN, Jacket, "The Dead Guy Interviews" 9/2007

GOOD PRESS March 20 , 2007
Two books I worked on have been getting good reviews:

Pull of the Ocean Review in the Wall Street Journal (cover)

Buy Pull of the Ocean!

How to Save Your Tail reviews (cover and interior spots)
Buy How to Save Your Tail!

NEW STUDIO! December 30, 2006
Take a gander at my new attic work space...

SI 49
December 21, 2006
Four of my drawings were chosen to appear in the Society of Illustrators 49th Annual Show. The images in the show:

SPOTCO, Poster, "High Fidelity"
ABSOLUTE MAGAZINE, Full Page, "One Sutton Place"
FS&G, Book Cover, "Corps of the Bare-Boned Plane"
AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION, Spread, "Calamity"

SILVER MEDAL! December 10, 2006
Nine of my images were selected to appear in The Society of Illustrators Los Angeles 45th annual exhibition, and Calamity was awarded a silver medal in the institutional category. Pull of the Ocean was also given an Honorable Mention.

NEW POST DEUX photos December 1, 2006
Thanks to one of my students at WU, I got some great pictures of my post-its from the show at Giant Robot. (thanks julia!)


See the show photos here • See a few of my post-its here

More JACK for all of the cute-junkies October 1, 2006
Andrea has started a wonderful mommy-blog. With updates many times a week, don't miss out on any of the adorableness!
Click here:
Peekaboojack.blogspot.com

SPD Spot Show! July 25, 2006
Four of my images will be shown in the Society of Publication Design SPOT illustration show.
• "Bells & Whistles" • "Truth in the Media" • "Tommy Goes to College" • "Hurricane Tom"

'Illustration NOW' tear-off calendar July 8, 2006
TASCHEN's best seller "Illustration NOW!" will be turned into a 2007 tear-off calendar, featuring several of my drawings. My drawings appear on 4/30, 5/10, 5/30 and 8/13. See this link for ordering info.

Shows! June 9, 2006
Over the next few months I'll be participating in a few interesting group shows.

• BEING THERE, "Drawing on Location from the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program at School of Visual Arts" SVA Gallery, NYC-Fall 2006

•POST DEUX, "Mark Todd's Post-It Show" Giant Robot 2, Los Angeles, CA- August 2006.

AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION 25! April 18, 2006
Two drawings will appear in the silver anniversary edition of American Illustration, coming out in November 2006.

RANDOM HOUSE, Cover, "Pull of the Ocean," 9/2005
SAN FRANCISCO MAGAZINE, Spread, "The Big One" 3/2005

HOW Magazine Profile March 13, 2006
In the August issue, HOW Magazine will be running a profile on my work with an short interview. I was asked to do a self portrait to go along with the article. What else but a lumberjack?

SI 48 MEDAL CEREMONY March 3, 2006
Click here for some pictures of the Society of Illustrators 48th annual Book/Editorial opening at 128 E. 63rd Street, New York City.