Illustrator & Visual Designer
Editorial · Brand · Campaigns · Publishing · Visual storytelling
The Darkness That Blew My Mind.
Eighty-two hours alone in total darkness, and what that does to a mind. The story that got to me was the moment the dark stops being an absence and turns into a presence.
On Outsourcing My Father.
What happens when the role of a father gets handed to someone else? A story about presence you can hire and absence you can’t, and the quiet ache of the difference.
Your Guide To Brussels.
A guide for people arriving in a city whose rules nobody explains. I wanted to capture that first stretch where you have to commit before you understand anything.
The Music Industry.
The music industry is as much the people who never take a bow as the one who does. That was the story I wanted to tell: the machine behind the star, and who it really runs on.
The First Magician On The Vegas Strip.
The first magician on the Strip, and the question of where the trick ends and the legend begins. I wanted her to carry the same mystery as the myth around her.
Loneliness Kills.
Loneliness isn’t only a feeling, it’s a health risk. I wanted to show how it can be felt anywhere, even in the middle of a crowd.
The Long Corner.
Alexander Maksik’s novel, reviewed for the New York Times Book Review. What I wanted to hold on to was the stillness of someone standing right at a turning point.
Can We Fix Our Relationship With Our Parents?
Can the bond with our parents be repaired? It takes two, and years of distance in between. That balance is what I wanted to give shape to.
La Vuelta al Fútbol
Eighty stories that are really one: why we love football. I wanted the cover to carry the childhood every fan starts from.
Fight / Issue 26.
Volata’s issue 26 was about lucha, the fight. In cycling, the real opponent is rarely the rider next to you: it’s the terrain, the solitude and the refusal to stop.
Un Juramento Escarlata
A fantasy debut built around an oath. For me it was about the weight of a promise, and the courage it takes to keep it when it costs you something.
The View Through Sound.
How music shapes the way we see the world. Listening is a way of seeing, and sound builds an inner space that belongs only to you.
Taking a Shot.
Every decision is a shot you can’t take back. I wanted to stay in the second before the outcome, when everything is still possible.
Big On The Screen.
Cinema promises a bigger life than the one outside the theater. The piece plays with the border where screen and reality start to blur.
The Deadly Leap of Crime Fiction
Crime fiction lives on the point of no return. Babelia asked why we’re so drawn to it, and my answer was the thrill of a fall we’d never take ourselves.
33 Ways to Stop Worrying About Everything.
Worries are easier to let go of when you can watch them float away. For Mr Porter, a man in his bath and a hallway of soap bubbles carrying them off.
The Art of War
Sun Tzu wrote about winning without fighting. I wanted a cover that treats strategy as an art, closer to elegance and discipline than to brute force.
Ideas Are What Shape History.
Thirty-three ways to stop worrying, and the honest truth that none of them works overnight. I wanted lightness: worry as something you can learn to set down.