Ongoing personal series of all things swimmy, fluttery, crawly, and scampery,

Denmark based developer festival put on by Umbraco hired me to come up with the 2013 conference logo and imagery.

Wired Magazine in Germany commissioned me for 5 portrait illustrations of their "THINK" section columnists as well as 5 initial letter type designs.

Mini 5"x7" nature abstracts for Nucleus Gallery Power in Numbers art auction. 

Curated by Hector Ayuso, OFFF Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center invited me and many other artists to contribute art you could play with. One of two pieces, this was a single puzzle vistors where encouraged to put together out of a pile of 3 of the same puzzle, each with different color schemes. The end result (if it ever gets put together) will be a collage of sorts of the original design).

Day of the Dead Skulls, personal work to welcome the fated year of 2012.

Special collaboration with Joshua Davis using Leap Motion for 6 month exhibition at Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center. Visitors paint their own composition using mini pieces of art I prepared and Josh's generative code that swirl and map the art to the user's fingers when waved over the Leap device.

Ongoing personal series of portraits of my friends. The goal is to surprise and thoroughly embarrass my buddies by presenting them with a print. So far the project objectives have been a success. Victims: Brian Carley, Sougwen Chung, Joshua Davis, Karan Singh, Chuck Anderson

Ongoing girl series. The goal of the project is experimental portraiture to see how drawing style can evolve through repeating the same subject matter over and over.

Exhibited at We Can Create symposium in Auckland and Grind Gallery. 

Gallery for work group show at Karen 19 Gallery, Gold Coast Australia, artists were tasked to create 4 pieces relating to Spain in some way. This was a portrait exercise and homage to the Spanish masters Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Salvador Dali, and Antoni Tàpies. Original pencil and watercolor drawings are available for sale through the gallery. Limited edition prints are also available through that gallery in an edition of only 3, signed and embossed. Opening reception, June 9, 2012. Medium: pencil, watercolor, ink, digital.

Personal series of pattern and kaleidoscope experiments.

Personal series. Originals appear in Spring Lookbook for 
SGCNY. Final pieces appear in Depthcore's XLI's Chapter ЯOЯЯIM.

Sold out debut solo show with The Friends of Leon Gallery in Sydney, Australia, September 2010.

I was invited by Designers Against Child Slavery to be 1 of 30 international artists to create poster art themed around the growing issue of child slavery and prostitution. There are an estimated 2 million children currently enslaved in the global sex trade. The final pieces will be shown in galleries globally to raise awareness. 

Creative Cards is a collaborative deck of cards put together by Digital Abstracts. A few other artists include Joshua Davis, Raphaël Vicenzi, Anton Repponen, Pat Perry, Géraldine Georges, Justin Maller, and Nate Coonrad. Cards available for purchase through their site. I illustrated the Two or Hearts. 

Collaboration with Brooklyn based designers Daisy & Elizabeth for motorcycle jacket inspired cover up piece.

Various identity posters for NYC based Awesome Transistor Amplifier Company (AwTAC) as well as front console panel design. Available in limited edition. Literally the best amplifier you can buy. Dave told me so.

Collaboration with Joshua Davis using my hand-drawn illustration and his Flash based generative art. All generated from "coral" assets.

Nature inspired illustrations commissioned by Ford to support the launch of their new electric car, the Ford Focus.

Letterpress group show, participating artist with The KDU put on by Leo Burnett to celebrate the stage of New York City. Each artist was ask to create a piece inspired by and incorporating the text of a "scribe" who captured an authentic overheard New York City quote.

Ongoing personal series inspired by natural forms.

Piece for Designers Against Child Slavery for "Biographe" project creating art that could be both worn on apparel as well as be part of a group benefit art and fashion show in NYC fall 2012. DACS helps raise both money and awareness to rise up against child sex trafficking. Recently DACS has partnered with The Blind Project, a Brooklyn based organization that has created a sustainable business model in Bangkok to employ former victims of trafficking. The art for this project was to be inspired by particular story of a women currently working in this fair trade company in Bangkok. The art generated for this project will be screenprinted by these same women as "Biographe's" first line of clothing. 

Invitation to participate as one of several international artists in Sydney's Somedays Gallery's Bicycle Film Festival group show. Each artist was asked to create a poster inspired by a 19th century cycling poster to promote bicycle expositions and races. The two pieces, the new and old were displayed side by side for the August 2011 opening. This piece was inspired by an old Stucchi piece.

My dear friend Donia Khalifa started her own boutique astrology company and asked me to do her branding. To find out more about the meaning of the Amaranth Flower, please visit AsAm's site.

Typography piece initiated for The Daily Glyph.

Personal series of portraits of Bob Dylan, Thom Yorke, Jimi Hendrix, Raymond Carver, Notorious BIG,  and Rick Owens

Commission from Spanish magazine Staf for a a re-imagining of their logo.

Print collection for the Sakroots Fall 2011 collection. A special collaboration with my sister Emily Blake—all artwork inspired by her song Treehouse.  Special thanks to Jill Snowden, Victoria Masters, Lorae Russo, Ben Arditti, and Joshua Davis. 

Piece for Run Your Jewels project—every few weeks a new artist who works digitally provides his or her source files for users to download, play with, and remix! Competitors then submit their remixes to compete for the "best remix"—the winner gets signed art by the original artist. 

A pitch concept for Marc Jacob's release of Dasiy for 2011 for digital work under creative direction of Gui Borchert at Syrup NYC. The concept involved creating a fantasy illustrated world that users could control and navigate, which blooms from the print campaign. Concept and illustration were ultimately unused. Provided for style direction only.

Large scale in-store displays for the new Nike House of Hoops store on 34th Street in New York City. Pencil, watercolor, digital. Black and white images of the store are used with permission of photographer Dave Raphael, images ©Dave Raphael.

Spring 2011 women's t-shirt line. Original art and photographs by HelloZSO. Final art direction and shirt design by Hurley.

For the first time, Brooklyn was home to TED's satellite conference TEDx this November 2010. In association with The Keystone Design Union, I was asked to create a live piece of art around the TEDx Brooklyn logo. The work was inspired by the TED tag "Ideas Worth Spreading." The first piece was created before the conference, and then projected in the lecture hall between speakers. The second was drawn live throughout the day in the TEDx Labs at Pratt. Special thanks to The Keystone Design Union, Cinecycle, TEDx, and Pratt University.

Various typography work for rebranding of Brooklyn Machine Works, presented by The Keystone Design Union.

Ongoing personal series.

Hand drawn typography for New Zealand's Pilot Magazine 2012 feature in association with the KDU. Original in possession of David Gensler, KDU founder and owner.

Identity work for Leicacraft, presented by The Keystone Design Union.

Art for Design Collector to celebrate 7 years in the running. Artists were tasked to incorporate the number 7 somewhere into the design.

Invited to be the guest illustrator for Yen Magazine for the December 2009 issue.

Site and identity for singer/songwriter Emily Blake (my sister!). I don't know how we're related but she got the music gene.

Typography for Phil Knott's Tally Ho Magazine

Commission by boutique Koko & Me for a whimsical flamingo for their site.

Skate deck designs for fashion label SGCNY.

Patterns and designs for RYZ, presented by the KDU.