I’m super proud of my friend Venessa for the CNN coverage of her Future of Facebook project, and stoked to have my STEEP analysis illustration run on CNN as part of it. Go team! 
Where I’m confused is where chimps & bonobos diverge from humans. Does this work as it is, or should I switch the chimpanzee & bonobo labels? The way it is now sort of looks like bonobos & humans share the most recent common ancestor, instead of chimps & humans (to me, but I’m not used to reading these diagrams). Is this ok? I’m working from this cladogram.
For Venessa Miemis’ blog on Forbes as part of The Future of Facebook project, a six-part video series exploring the impacts of social networking technologies on our lives and business.
Facebook facilitates political organizing and could be a communication channel for dissidents, but monitoring is inherent to the system. The walled garden listens.
Here’s the illustration that ran on CNN to accompany Venessa Miemis‘ article 4 Trends Shaping the Emerging “Superfluid” Economy.
You should read Venessa’s blog, Emergent by Design, if you’re into the impact technology is having on our society, culture, economy & future.
Here’s how it looks on the site. Definitely a career high so far 
Created for writer & digital ethnographer Venessa Miemis to accompany The Bank of Facebook: Currency, Identity & Reputation. Ran on Forbes, Brian Solis, and Emergent by Design.
I spotted these friendly neighbourhood Spidermen getting cozy in the Y’s daycare, our last bastion of entertainment on an otherwise dead (get it?) holiday Sunday.
I know you’re clamouring for the blogular relevance—what do sexy superheroes have to do with marketing, media, art & design?
These amorous arachnids are getting it on in front of a government-issue health poster I illustrated with Velocity Branding (back in the day when they were Space Cadet).
I’m so proud to see the posters up everywhere—they’re even in the washroom at CBC—encouraging proper handwashing and cough-coverage. There’s nothing about safe public relations, unfortunately. I would have liked to draw that one.
Futurist friend Venessa Miemis has started blogging for business giants Forbes, and she kindly offered me the illustration space on her inaugural post!
Here’s a different version of the same piece, “Could Affiliate Crowdfunding Be an Alternate Model for Online Advertising?”
A visual that came out of thinking about barcodes as a gateway to seeing another layer of reality. Click for a bigger look at it.
Seen the “Be Smart Like Jane” billboard on Marion? It caught my eye both because it hits most of the billboard design high notes for legibility & memorability, and because the visual language struck me as totally, nerdily familiar:
The province is marketing its resources and tax incentives to would-be small business owners, which is great. And I dig the billboard; it’s stylish & clean. But I wonder why Jane has to be so unsexy! Can’t bimbos run businesses? The illustrator was damned if they did, though—a tartier woman would have problems of her own. Or maybe this is sexy. I have been accused of having visual interests that skew towards the nerdish.
In light of my recent dissertation on Twitter’s damn bird, the last thing I ever want to see is another blue avian anything, but here you go. Available on Flickr with a Creative Commons license.
Not your cup of tea? How ’bout this older, but no less adorable, free Twitter bird? I’m full of ‘em!
I’m working on a series called “Man & Machine”, about the coming (or not, depending on your philosophical attachment to humanity) singularity.
Doesn't he just look like he can barely contain his brilliant tweet?
There’s a tweet in there somewhere! If you need a lovely blue bird to illustrate a pithy blog post you’re writing about Twitter, or something, feel free to download a big version of this illustration here.
Our oversocialized friend talking to the cloud about social media search
